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The death of Linda Norgrove was a tragedy that happened when something goes wrong in military rescue operation. Ms. Norgrove, a Scottish aid worker, was kidnapped by members of the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan on September 26 with three Afghan co-workers. The Afghanis were later released. Intelligence sources learned the Taliban took Ms. Norgrove to a stronghold in the mountains of northern Kunar region. Using a network of eavesdropping and informants the Taliban kidnappers were being tracked and all actions were being monitored by overhead drones. In the intelligence community the information on the location of Ms. Norgrove was solid....

Startling details of the daring rescue mission that ended in the death of the British aid worker Linda Norgrove can be revealed today, as a joint US-UK investigation into the incident gets under

LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday that a British aid worker killed in an American rescue raid in Afghanistan last week may have been killed by a grenade detonated by a United States special forces unit — not in an explosion of a suicide bomber’s vest detonated by her Taliban captors, as the American command in Afghanistan suggested when it confirmed her death on Saturday. A grim-faced Mr. Cameron appeared at a news conference at 10 Downing Street to say he had learned of “this deeply distressing development” Monday from the top American and NATO commander in Afghanistan,...