The operation to rescue a British hostage in Afghanistan failed
American militants show intelligence workers as brave guys who can save any person anywhere in the world. Perhaps there have been some isolated cases of such rescues in the past, but the current operation to rescue hostage Linda Norgrov (Scotland) in Afghanistan ended tragically, according to the British publication Independent.
After receiving a tip from the location of the hostage, a group of American soldiers was sent to rescue Linda. During the fighting, 36-year-old Ms. Norgrov, sent to Afghanistan by the UK, was killed. According to rumors spread in the UK, the hostage was mistakenly shot by American rescuers.
Full details of the failure of the rescue operation may be published in the near future, but yesterday Prime Minister of Great Britain David Cameron hurried to dispel rumors: "The decision to start the operation to free the hostages is always difficult to accept. But we and our allies had to do this based on the information about the whereabouts of the hostage. We decided that, given the danger in which the hostage resides, the chosen attack time is the best chance for her release. "
“Mrs. Norgrov was a courageous man,” said General David Petraeus, commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, yesterday, “the Afghan coalition forces did everything in their power to save Linda.”
Commenting on the risks posed by the release of hostages, the former commander of the coalition forces, Clive Fairveter, said: "You cannot guarantee in the last few minutes of close combat that she will not be shot by terrorists or even your own soldiers."
News about the death of her daughter, overtook her parents, 60-year-old John and 62-year-old Lorna, home on the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. They refused to give the publication whatever comments on the matter. Only the younger sister said that Linda felt love for the Afghan people. She studied the culture of the peoples of Afghanistan for a long time. Last year, I decided to spend three weeks crossing the Pamir ridge in the extreme north-east of the country between Pakistan and Tajikistan. She was very happy that she was assigned to work in this country.
Linda Norgrov, a policy and management specialist, was sent to Jalalabad by Development Alternatives Inc (DAI) in February of this year as director for coordinating the design and construction of infrastructure facilities (bridges, roads, irrigation systems, hydro-power and solar power plants and etc.).
She was abducted two weeks ago along with three Afghan colleagues during a move from Asadabad to Jalalabad after the opening of an irrigation canal. Afghans were subsequently released by the Taliban.
According to Scottish sources, this is not the first time that the rescue operation of the coalition forces has ended in failure. Last year, for example, three people died during a rescue operation led by British special forces while trying to rescue journalist Steve Farrell from the New York Times. Then Sultan Munadi, his Afghan assistant, and a woman with a child died. From the side of the rescuers killed John Harrison, a paratrooper.
The actions of the special forces who liberated Linda were criticized yesterday by Bob the Shepherd, a veteran of the coalition forces in Afghanistan, who has experience in the structures of the private security service in Iran and Afghanistan. "The actions of coalition forces in Kunar province are ridiculous. Politicians must be honest in talking about the true level of danger in Afghanistan. The British government and the foreign ministry together with the Americans are complicit in this murder. They have hands in blood," he said.
After receiving a tip from the location of the hostage, a group of American soldiers was sent to rescue Linda. During the fighting, 36-year-old Ms. Norgrov, sent to Afghanistan by the UK, was killed. According to rumors spread in the UK, the hostage was mistakenly shot by American rescuers.
Full details of the failure of the rescue operation may be published in the near future, but yesterday Prime Minister of Great Britain David Cameron hurried to dispel rumors: "The decision to start the operation to free the hostages is always difficult to accept. But we and our allies had to do this based on the information about the whereabouts of the hostage. We decided that, given the danger in which the hostage resides, the chosen attack time is the best chance for her release. "
“Mrs. Norgrov was a courageous man,” said General David Petraeus, commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, yesterday, “the Afghan coalition forces did everything in their power to save Linda.”
Commenting on the risks posed by the release of hostages, the former commander of the coalition forces, Clive Fairveter, said: "You cannot guarantee in the last few minutes of close combat that she will not be shot by terrorists or even your own soldiers."
News about the death of her daughter, overtook her parents, 60-year-old John and 62-year-old Lorna, home on the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. They refused to give the publication whatever comments on the matter. Only the younger sister said that Linda felt love for the Afghan people. She studied the culture of the peoples of Afghanistan for a long time. Last year, I decided to spend three weeks crossing the Pamir ridge in the extreme north-east of the country between Pakistan and Tajikistan. She was very happy that she was assigned to work in this country.
Linda Norgrov, a policy and management specialist, was sent to Jalalabad by Development Alternatives Inc (DAI) in February of this year as director for coordinating the design and construction of infrastructure facilities (bridges, roads, irrigation systems, hydro-power and solar power plants and etc.).
She was abducted two weeks ago along with three Afghan colleagues during a move from Asadabad to Jalalabad after the opening of an irrigation canal. Afghans were subsequently released by the Taliban.
According to Scottish sources, this is not the first time that the rescue operation of the coalition forces has ended in failure. Last year, for example, three people died during a rescue operation led by British special forces while trying to rescue journalist Steve Farrell from the New York Times. Then Sultan Munadi, his Afghan assistant, and a woman with a child died. From the side of the rescuers killed John Harrison, a paratrooper.
The actions of the special forces who liberated Linda were criticized yesterday by Bob the Shepherd, a veteran of the coalition forces in Afghanistan, who has experience in the structures of the private security service in Iran and Afghanistan. "The actions of coalition forces in Kunar province are ridiculous. Politicians must be honest in talking about the true level of danger in Afghanistan. The British government and the foreign ministry together with the Americans are complicit in this murder. They have hands in blood," he said.
Information