American likely killed by Islamist Taliban

Combined reports indicate American likely killed by Islamist Taliban along with her aid-service driver

Terry Lee Goodrich with the Star Telegram, Sayed Salahuddin with Reuters and wire material from The Associated Press reported Wednesday, Feb. 27, on the likely death of an American aid worker in Afghanistan.

Cyd Mizell, 50, noted as a student 20 years ago of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in __ and with family in Washington State, worked with Asia Rural Life Development Association, and was kidnapped with her driver January 26.

Her disappearance prompted national attention among Southern Baptist congregations and many missionaries serving in the “10-40” window, the African-Asian corridor encompassing most of the Muslim third-world.

Her work with women, training them in basic marketable skills such as sewing, prompted many helped women to protest her capture several weeks ago - hundreds of Muslim women marched in the streets of Kabul calling for Islamist Muslim terrorists to let her go safely.

An American woman aid worker and Southwestern Baptist Theological seminary graduate abducted in Afghanistan last month may have been killed, along with her local driver, foreign groups said.

Mizell, an employee of the Asian Rural Life Development Foundation, and her driver were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen last month while heading for work in a car in the southern city of Kandahar.

"Although we have no confirmation of their deaths, we have received information over the past few days indicating that our two aid workers have been killed," the aid foundation’s Web site said.

No group has claimed responsibility for the abductions, and the Taliban insurgents behind many of the recent year's kidnappings have denied involvement.

"Yes, we have this fear that they may have been killed," an official working for a Western security group told Reuters on condition of anonymity on Wednesday. www.arldf.net.

Mizell, 50, was an aid worker who taught Afghan women income-producing skills such as sewing.

Kandahar, in southeastern Afghanistan, was the Taliban’s capital before a U.S.-led coalition overthrew the fundamentalist group in 2001. The region remains infiltrated by Taliban militants and al Qaeda sympathizers.

Southwestern officials said in a prepared statement that they are "deeply saddened" by Mizell's death. "This barbarism displayed is typical of radical Islam, and all Americans should watch these developments closely," the statement said.

"We call on well-meaning Muslims everywhere to decry this horrendous action." …

Mizell, a native of Eureka, Calif., graduated from Southwestern with a master of divinity degree in 1990, and lived in Kandahar since 2005, teaching English to high school students along with job skills to women…

A man who answered the phone Tuesday at the Seattle, Washington, home of Mizell's parents said they were not taking calls.

In a posting shortly after Mizell's kidnapping, her father, George Mizell, thanked those concerned for his daughter and implored kidnappers to return her.

"I'm confused why my daughter would be taken because she's a gentle, caring and respectful person," he wrote…

Mizell spoke the local language, Pashto, and wore the all-enveloping burqa, like most women in the former heartland of the Taliban.

Apart from the Taliban, criminal gangs, drug traffickers and armed groups are also involved in abductions of foreigners and Afghans.

The Taliban kidnapped 23 South Koreans in July last year. The group killed two of its hostages before releasing the rest after a deal with the South Korean government. 

The Taliban are the most likely to have done this act of barbarism, perhaps Islamist Muslim drug traffickers supporting jihad with the drug proceeds - Southwestern Seminary leaders are correct, Americans need to know about this.

The Islamist Muslims leading the Taliban have a virulent hatred of any benefit coming into Afghan society that would empower women in any independent way.

This is what we learn of Islamist Muslims in the real world, beyond the Counsel on American Islamic Relations propaganda: Islam is as Islam does, until proven otherwise - learn from what they do, not from what they say.

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