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| Mercy Corps pulls workers from Afghanistan |
| 2001-09-19 |
Mercy Corps, the international aid organization that has its headquarters here, has pulled its workers from Afghanistan because of the possibility of a United States attack. Mercy Corps has operated for more than a decade in southern Afghanistan, the home of alleged terrorist ringleader Osama bin Laden and the stronghold of the country's hard-line Taliban militia. The non-profit's four foreign workers in Afghanistan, including two Americans, were in Pakistan when terrorists struck New York and Washington, D.C., last Tuesday. The non-profit instructed them not to return to Afghanistan. Other aid organizations also have pulled foreign staff from the country. Hundreds of Mercy Corps' Afghan aid workers do remain in Afghanistan, and so do thousands of beneficiaries of the group's programs. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |