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British hostage may have been killed by U.S. troops

By Philip George
October 11, 2010 - 6:20 pm
Hostage was initially believed to have been killed by Taliban captors.

Recent evidence suggests that a grenade assault by United States troops killed Linda Norgrove, a Briton being held captive by Taliban in Afghanistan, not her captors, according to The New York Times. 

British Prime Minister David Cameron announced at a news conference Monday that Gen. David H. Petraeus informed him that a survey of the assault led him to believe that U.S. rescuers threw a grenade in the area that Norgrove was being held, the blast killing her.

A full investigation of the raid will be launched by the United States and the United Kingdom.

 

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