From the San Fran Chronicle: Anne Smedinghoff had a quiet ambition and displayed a love of global affairs from an early age, joining the U.S. Foreign Service straight out of college and volunteering for missions in perilous locations worldwide.
So when the 25-year-old suburban Chicago woman was killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan — the first American diplomat to die on the job since last year's attack in Benghazi, Libya — her family took solace in the fact that she died doing something she loved.
"It was a great adventure for her ... She loved it," her father, Tom Smedinghoff, told The Associated Press on Sunday. "She was tailor-made for this job."...
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U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry on Sunday railed against the "cowardly" terrorists responsible for the
attack that killed five Americans in Afghanistan, including a "selfless,
idealistic" young diplomat on a mission to donate books to students.
In the deadliest day in eight months for the
United States in the war, militants killed six Americans in separate attacks
Saturday, the violence occurring hours after the U.S. military's top officer
arrived in Afghanistan for consultations with Afghan and U.S.-led
coalition officials.
The last American diplomat killed on the job was
Chris
Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya. Stevens and three other American died
in an attack Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya. No one has yet been brought
to justice.
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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Kerry-mourns-selfless-idealistic-US-diplomat-4415633.php#ixzz2PrIbhaPm
So, where was her protection and coordination with the Afghan security forces?
First Libya and now here.
Can't we protect out diplomats?
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