UK Charity Worker Was Killed In Kabul?
??? asked:
A woman working for a UK-registered charity has been shot dead near Kabul University in the Afghan capital.
Gayle Williams, 34, was a UK and South African national. She was killed by two men on a motorbike, witnesses told the BBC.
The Taleban are reported to have said they killed her because she was working for a Christian organisation called Serve Afghanistan.
In August the Taleban killed three foreign women near Kabul.
Further worries
Ms Williams was killed while walking to work, police said.
An eyewitness told the BBC that two men on a motorbike drew alongside her. One man then got off the motorbike and shot her at close range before jumping back on the bike and escaping.
Mike Lyth paid tribute to Ms Williams
Children on the street going to school also saw the incident.
“Some bullets hit her body and some hit her leg and when police got there she was dead,” interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told the AFP news agency.
The BBC’s Martin Patience in Kabul says this is not the first time that a foreigner has been killed in the Afghan capital by armed men.
But the incident will raise further concerns about the security situation in Afghanistan, our correspondent says.
In the past week, there have been three assassinations in the southern city of Kandahar, all carried out by men on motorbikes.
Operations suspended
Serve Afghanistan is a UK registered charity whose overseas staff are volunteers. It focuses on education and training for people with disabilities.
The charity’s chairman, Mike Lyth, said the staff and volunteers were in shock over the killing.
Police at the scene of the shooting
He said: “She had been there for about two-and-a-half-years and was managing a community development project focused on disabled people.
“We are deeply saddened about what has happened. She was absolutely lovely and was full of life. A sportswoman and mountaineer - she just loved that sort of thing.
“The thought of Afghanistan must have seemed an adventure for her.”
Taleban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told AFP that they killed Ms Williams “because she was working for an organisation which was preaching Christianity in Afghanistan”.
Mr Lyth believed more attacks were imminent and said: “It is happening increasingly often in countries like Afghanistan. It is a policy of the Taleban to destabilise and knock the government by knocking out all of the aid and NGOs working there.”
He said Ms Williams’s fellow volunteers needed to discuss their next course of action.
In August another aid group, the International Rescue Committee, suspended operations after three of its foreign female staff - a British-Canadian, a Canadian and a Trinidadian-American - were shot with their Afghan driver close to Kabul.
The Taleban claimed responsibility for that attack, saying the women were foreign spies.
What do you think of this? Does it not view muslims in a bad way?
Why would they kill a woman who was preaching about christainity? Is it wrong for someone to teach someone about a different religion other than islam?
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Volunteering opportunities overseas, Africa?
shmargle asked:
I am looking for overseas volunteering opportunites, specifically in Africa or the Middle East? Community Development projects?
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What is the process for designing a social networking website?
Stuart M asked:
I’m a grad student and two professors have approached me about being the project lead on developing a social-network platform. They’re wanting to use it to create survey’s via a collaborative community; and I’m curious if anyone knows any best practices for developing such a site, and the time/cost factors that goes into it. I’ve started looking into development via a LAMP platform, and think that we will use dedicated servers at first. Could anyone recommend starting points, perhaps based on own research or experience? Thanks!
WOW leveling guide
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How do I report someone like this so that they don’t scam some poor soul for a bank account number?
newspapermaker asked:
I received this letter today. No I don’t want to answer it but how can I get this fraud.
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He left the sum of USD 7,350, 000.00 dollars (seven Million, Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand US Dollars)in a security company.
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Do you want to know the truth that McCain won’t tell you?
Logic Lost And Found asked:
STRAIGHT FROM www.factcheck.org……..
McCain’s ad opens by turning Obama’s housing problem attack back on Obama. The narrator says Chicago real estate developer Tony Rezko, one of Obama’s “biggest fundraisers” helped Obama buy his “million-dollar mansion” by purchasing property that Obama couldn’t afford. The ad goes on to charge that Obama helped Rezko receive “political favors” including “$14 million from taxpayers,” and it points out that Rezko is now a convicted felon.
It’s untrue that Rezko got “$14 million from taxpayers” for himself, as the ad seems to be saying. The “help” to which it refers is a one-page letter Obama signed in October 1998 urging the city housing commissioner to support an apartment project for low-income senior citizens. A copy went to the state housing development authority. The 97-unit Cottage View Terrace, which opened in 2002, was funded with taxpayer money, and Tony Rezko was involved in developing the project.
But the deal did not put $14 million into Rezko’s pocket. That figure represents the total development cost for the project. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Rezko and his partner, Allison Davis, netted about $855,000. That’s not pocket change, but it’s a far cry from $14 million. And the tenants of the building benefited too.
Moreover, the ad’s claim that Obama wrote the letter as a favor to Rezko is without factual support. Both men deny that Rezko asked Obama to write them, and Obama says his district office frequently sent letters supporting “worthy” community projects, so routinely that “I wasn’t even aware that we wrote the letter.” Rezko’s attorney, Joseph Duffy, told the Sun-Times in 2007 that “Mr. Rezko never spoke with, nor sought a letter from, Senator Obama in connection with that project.” And Obama told Sun-Times reporters in a March 2008 interview:
Obama (March 15, 2008): [He] did not solicit that from me. … This was a project that was well-regarded in the community, has done well, and was supported on its own merits, and it was essentially a form letter of the sort that I did all [the] time.
Can support for a low-income housing project be a “favor” to the developer if the developer didn’t ask for it? You decide.
As for that claim about Rezko helping Obama buy his house, well, we’ve dealt with that one before. The gist of the story: In 2005, Barack and Michelle Obama found a house that they wanted to purchase. The property had been divided into two parcels, one containing a house and the other undeveloped land. The owner had listed the properties separately. After considerable haggling, the seller accepted the Obamas’ third bid of $1.65 million for the parcel containing the house. Tony Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining lot for $625,000.
When the Obamas wanted to increase the size of their yard, they approached the Rezkos about purchasing a strip of the adjacent parcel. Obama told the Sun-Times that a 10-foot strip of the 60-foot lot appraised for $40,000. The Obamas nevertheless paid Rita $104,500 (or 1/6 of the total purchase price of her lot) for the strip. In 2007, Rita sold the remaining lot for $575,000 (or roughly a $54,500 profit on the overall property).
McCain’s ad, however, is worded in a way that could leave a false impression. It says Rezko “helped him buy his million-dollar mansion” by “purchasing part of the property he couldn’t afford.” That’s true, but only because the seller wanted to sell the two parcels as a unit and the Obamas couldn’t afford both. Rezko did not make a gift of any property to the Obamas. Furthermore, the fact that his wife sold her lot for more than she paid for it contradicts any suggestion that the Rezkos overpaid for their part of the deal as a way of getting the seller to lower the price to the Obamas for their part.
The McCain ad says of Rezko, “Now, he’s a convicted felon.” That’s true; Rezko was indicted in 2006 and convicted of corruption charges on June 4, 2008. But those charges came after the 2005 Obama home purchase and had nothing to do with that or with the $14 million project mentioned in the ad.
Obama has donated campaign contributions from Rezko and his associates to charity.
JUST WANTED TO HELP SOME OF YOU OUT BEFORE YOU KEEP REPEATING MCCAINS REZKO LIE. 
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i need help with my astronomy project. i have to write a paper about why the universe changes so much?
i love wdv!!!! <3 asked:
what we mean by violent and catastrophic events, we have to explain how sicentists gather data and information about these events and objects. we have to choose one of the objects or events and we have to explain what scientists are learning as they gather the data and info from available technology. and we have to explain the impact and the importance of these scientific and technological developments to both the general publicand the scientific community. any and all of your help is going to be greatly appreciated.
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What did Lee Bollinger ( President of Columbia University) tried to accomplished by insulting Ahmadineja?
The One asked:
This has anything to do with him acting like OJ instead of an educator?
“…..Bollinger has been criticized for taking a neutral public position on controversies in 2004-5 regarding intimidation of students by professors in the Middle East Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) department alleged by the pro-Israel advocacy organization The David Project, and for placing the department in receivership. He has also been at the forefront of criticism for his role advocating the expansion of the University into the Manhattanville neighborhood and the possible use of eminent domain to help it seize property there. The Bollinger administration’s expansion plans have been criticized as fundamentally incompatible with the 197/a plan for development crafted by the community, and for failing to address the neighborhood’s need to maintain affordable housing stock…..”
Why do farmers in China are modest than PHD prof. in the USA = Bollinger!!! A President of a University = An Idiot.
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Is the Community Reinvestment Act responsible for the govt bail out of the mortgage industry? ?
Obama Hood - Spread the Wealth asked:
The Clinton administration has turned the Community Reinvestment Act, a once-obscure and lightly enforced banking regulation law, into one of the most powerful mandates shaping American cities—and, as Senate Banking Committee chairman Phil Gramm memorably put it, a vast extortion scheme against the nation’s banks. Under its provisions, U.S. banks have committed nearly $1 trillion for inner-city and low-income mortgages and real estate development projects, most of it funneled through a nationwide network of left-wing community groups, intent, in some cases, on teaching their low-income clients that the financial system is their enemy and, implicitly, that government, rather than their own striving, is the key to their well-being.
The CRA’s premise sounds unassailable: helping the poor buy and keep homes will stabilize and rebuild city neighborhoods. As enforced today, though, the law portends just the opposite, threatening to undermine the efforts of the upwardly mobile poor by saddling them with neighbors more than usually likely to depress property values by not maintaining their homes adequately or by losing them to foreclosure. The CRA’s logic also helps to ensure that inner-city neighborhoods stay poor by discouraging the kinds of investment that might make them better off.
The Act, which Jimmy Carter signed in 1977, grew out of the complaint that urban banks were “redlining” inner-city neighborhoods, refusing to lend to their residents while using their deposits to finance suburban expansion. CRA decreed that banks have “an affirmative obligation” to meet the credit needs of the communities in which they are chartered, and that federal banking regulators should assess how well they do that when considering their requests to merge or to open branches. Implicit in the bill’s rationale was a belief that CRA was needed to counter racial discrimination in lending, an assumption that later seemed to gain support from a widely publicized 1990 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston finding that blacks and Hispanics suffered higher mortgage-denial rates than whites, even at similar income level.
Basically this act gave people who could not afford loans a way to buy a home under the impression that home ownership will bring people out of poverty. See the story at:
http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_the_trillion_dollar.html
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im taking child development in community college?
B asked:
i was wondering if its a hard course?
what do you do in child development class?
is there alot of essay’s or projects?
what do it mean when someone say you have to write at a college level?whats the difference betweeen high school level and college level?
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what are the contributions of Asian countries to health care?
doms726 asked:
e.g. India - Adivasis who developed an intimate knowledge of various plants and their medicinal uses played an invaluable role in the development of Ayurvedic medicines. In a recent study, the All India Coordinated Research Project credits Adivasi communities with the knowledge of 9000 plant species - 7500 used for human healing and veterinary health care.
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