3 Americans among 21 killed in attack on restaurant in Afghan capital

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3 Americans among 21 killed in attack on restaurant in Afghan capital

Published January 19, 2014FoxNews.com

KABUL, Afghanistan – Three Americans were among 21 killed in a Taliban attack Friday on a Kabul restaurant popular with foreigners and affluent Afghans, the deadliest violence against foreign civilians in the country since the start of the war nearly 13 years ago.
"The U.S. Embassy in Kabul has confirmed that three U.S. Citizens were killed during the attack in Kabul on January 17th. Our deepest sympathies go out to the families of those killed" a State Department spokesperson said Saturday evening.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/01/19/4-un-staffers-among-21-killed-in-attack-on-restaurant-in-afghan-capital/





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'Fearless' Chicago woman dies in Afghanistan attack

A Chicago native was one of the 21 people killed in a Taliban assault Friday on a restaurant in Kabul.
By Jonathan Bullington Tribune reporter 6:44 a.m. CST, January 19, 2014

She knew the risks, but Lexie Kamerman’s family and friends said the Chicago native would not be deterred from her goal: Helping young women in Afghanistan improve their lives through education.
"That's the wonderful thing about her. She had a sense of fearlessness," said friend and former personal trainer Sherrille Lamb. "She was so focused on helping those young ladies that no matter what the circumstances around her might bring, that's what she was there for."
Less than a year after she took a job at American University of Afghanistan, Kamerman was among 21 people who died Friday when a Taliban suicide bomber and gunmen attacked a restaurant in the capital city of Kabul.



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"She was an amazing young woman – smart, strong, beautiful, funny, stubborn and kind," her family said in an emailed statement. "As you could probably guess, her death is a shock to us all and we can’t imagine a moment going forward when she won't be desperately missed."
Kamerman, 27, joined the private university last June as a student development specialist, according to a release from the Collegiate Water Polo Association, where Kamerman served as former director of membership.
She had been home during the holidays visiting her family on Chicago's North Side and returned to Kabul about a week before the attack, said Lamb, 48, a Chicago native who met Kamerman in 2012 at Elon University in Elon, N.C.
"She said she was sending me a package ... I was definitely wanting some Garretts (popcorn)," Lamb said in a phone interview from her home in North Carolina. The two talked via text message, Lamb said, looking forward in excitement for the day they both returned to Chicago.
"If I had a daughter, I would have loved to have had a daughter like her," Lamb said. "She accepted everybody."
Known simply as "Lexie," the Latin School of Chicago graduate was a standout water polo player at Knox College in Galesburg. She graduated in 2008 with a double major in environmental studies and in anthropology and sociology, school officials said.

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Two accountants who were auditing Canada’s foreign aid work in Afghanistan were identified on Saturday as the two Canadians killed in a brutal suicide attack at a popular restaurant in the capital Kabul.
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One brutal attack begets another's brutal attack.....I see a pattern developing

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Afghan civil-society activists pay tribute on Sunday to the 21 people—including 13 foreigners—gunned down at the Taverna du Liban in Kabul on Friday. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

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