Another glorious victory...

...for Allah's brave jihadis...

-- PUL-E-ALAM, Afghanistan -- Militants brandishing assault rifles ambushed a New York-based relief organization's vehicle south of Kabul Wednesday, killing three Western aid workers and their Afghan driver and leaving their white SUV riddled with hundreds of bullets, officials said.

The three women killed in Logar province worked for the International Rescue Committee, said Melissa Winkler, a spokeswoman for the group.

One was Canadian, another was a dual British-Canadian citizen and the third was a dual American-Trinidadian citizen, the IRC said.

The women were in Afghanistan working in volunteer programs that focused on children's education, according to agency spokeswoman Melissa Winkler.

So, here we have... once again... the capricious and unknowable "Will of Allah."

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UPDATE: Murdered women named

Mr. Kocher identified the 40-year-old British-Canadian as Jacqueline Kirk of Outremont, Que. She had been the education program adviser for the IRC since 2004.

The other Canadian killed was 31 years old and had been in Afghanistan for less than a year. Mr. Kocher said her family asked that her name be withheld until all siblings and relatives have been notified.

Also killed was Nicole Dial, 32, a dual citizen of Trinidad and the United States, who was the IRC's co-ordinator for children's program, Kocher said.

The driver killed was Mohammad Aimal, 25, who had worked for the IRC for five years.

IRC names second Canadian victim...

Shirley Case, 30, of Williams Lake, British Columbia. She joined the IRC on June 8 in Afghanistan to manage education programs designed to meet the needs of children with disabilities.

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RELATED: And while we're on Canada...

-- OTTAWA -- The mysterious death of an Ottawa man in a Denver hotel is now the subject of a terrorism investigation.

Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, 29, was found dead in a room at the Burnsley Hotel in downtown Denver Monday morning, less than two weeks before the Democratic National Convention takes place in the Colorado city. The hotel is about four blocks from the State Capitol building.

A coroner's investigation found indications of cyanide poisoning, Denver police detective John White told the Citizen yesterday.

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LAST WORD: Cyanide, what cyanide?

For CTV... it's all about "the caring"

"I don't know what happened. The community don't know what happened but I think the community do care. One of their members who travelled to Denver lost his life there."

Yeah... that's the real story here.

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