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What Jihadists Think of Aid Workers
Published November 17, 2008 @ 10:02AM PST
This is the same title as the post on my fellow cause blogger on the Humanitarian Relief beat. He writes below in his post:
Just came across an interesting Stratfor report released a few weeks ago, entitled Jihadist Ideology and the Targeting of Humanitarian Aid Workers.
Looking at Afghanistan and Somalia, the report explains why groups like the Taliban would want to target humanitarian organizations:
"The Taliban clearly see Afghanistan’s many foreign missionary and secular humanitarian aid organizations as supporting the Afghan government, and they believe that driving these organizations out of Afghanistan will be a blow to the government’s efforts to promote stability in the country."
Apparently, though, such attacks are "becoming a point of contention between jihadist ideologues and militant groups." Which is comforting, except for the fact that it's not.
There's more, but you have to go there for it.
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Charles Lenchner
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Charles is a nonprofit professional with 20 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations in Israel, Palestine and the U.S. For the past few years, he's been specializing in online organizing.
