THE HANDSTAND October Issue 2010

Linda Norgrove - her murder by logger "Xymphora"
I'm sure many may say this is just a 'conspiracy theory', and at best we can never know what happened. I seriously beg to differ. Consider:
local negotiators were certain they could gain her release through negotiations and the payment of ransom (as they had done in other situations), but the Americans rushed the 'rescue' on the bogus excuse, with no evidence whatsoever and in the face of established local practice, that she was about to be smuggled to Pakistan where she would be killed by 'al Qaeda';
the grenade thrown in a hostage 'rescue' by 'crack' American special forces;
the elaborate lies piled on to describe the evil Taliban and how they slaughtered this poor defenseless aid worker;
the fact that the Taliban denied being involved, and were even being paid protection money to lay off the aid workers;
the control of the area by warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, associated with drug smuggling and the CIA, whose people would be by far the most likely to be in a position to grab anyone in the area. I know this was murder. By Americans. Probably to protect CIA drug smuggling operations.
at 10/12/2010