Search results for ‘Linda Norgrove’
15 items found
-
Linda Norgrove death due to split-second decision
The soldier who accidentally killed the kidnapped aid worker Linda Norgrove during a rescue mission in Afghanistan genuinely feared for the lives of his colleagues and himself, an inquest hears.
-
US grenade did kill Linda Norgrove, MPs told
US troops involved in the failed attempt to rescue the British aid worker Linda Norgrove from Taliban kidnappers in Afghanistan are confirmed as having killed her with a grenade thrown at her captors.
-
Linda Norgrove parents do not blame US forces
The parents of aid worker Linda Norgrove, killed in Afghanistan in a failed rescue attempt after she had been kidnapped, tell Channel 4 News they do not blame the US Special Forces for her death.
-
British aid worker Linda Norgrove killed by the Taliban
Channel 4 News examines the tragic death of aid worker Linda Norgrove in Afghanistan, following claims a US grenade killed her in a “dangerous” failed rescue mission.
-
Hague defends attempt to rescue Linda Norgrove
In a statement to the Commons, Foreign Secretary William Hague has told MPs he authorised the operation to rescue Linda Norgrove “from the very beginning”.
-
US General consoles Norgrove aid worker family
The head of NATO forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, conveys his regrets over the death of aid worker Linda Norgrove to her family.
-
Norgrove death could result in ‘severe punishment’
Channel 4 News has learned that a US soldier would face “severe punishment” if he failed to quickly inform his superiors about throwing a grenade which killed aid worker Linda Norgrove.
-
Kidnapped aid worker: SAS briefed Hague
A senior British SAS officer briefed the Foreign Secretary on the American military operation to release aid worker Linda Norgrove, Channel 4 News understands.
-
US probe into aid worker’s Afghanistan death
The United States Central Command has launched an investigation into how the captive British aid worker Linda Norgrove died during a rescue attempt by US special forces in Afghanistan.
-
Why aid workers will continue to be targeted in Afghanistan
With the news that Linda Norgrove may have been killed by a hand grenade thrown by one of her would-be rescuers, our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at the charged background against which aid agencies have to operate in Afghanistan.
-
Cameron: aid worker may have been killed by US grenade
David Cameron tells a news conference at Downing Street that aid worker Linda Norgrove “may not have died at the hands of her captors” but by a grenade detonated by her would-be rescuers.
-
Hague gave nod for failed Afghan rescue bid
Channel 4 News has learned Foreign Secretary William Hague personally gave the go-ahead for a rescue mission in Afghanistan which led to the death of aid worker Linda Norgrove.
-
LiveBlog Channel 4 News, Fri 29 Oct
Coming up at 7: We’ll have the latest on the international security scare, Cathy Newman is in Brussels and we’ll hear from the CEO of the Maldives resort at the centre of major controversy.
-
Kidnapped UK aid worker killed in Afghanistan
David Cameron says it was “right to try” to rescue a UK aid worker killed in Afghanistan but one of the men kidnapped with her has told Channel 4 News the mission was “unnecessary” and “dangerous”.
-
Spending review: the "life and death consequences"
There will be pain. There will be anger. There will be despair. But there will not, at least initially, be a real life and death consequence as a result of most of the CSR. Most of it. But not all of it.
