Korean Aid Workers Flee Afghanistan

Don Martin, CanWest News ServicePublished: Sunday, July 22, 2007
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The South Korean man at the Ariana Airways office nervously flipped through a thick wad of tickets as they were hastily rebooked for an escape flight from humanitarian hell.
He was helping 19 passengers, including six children, make a dash for Kabul for a return flight to Seoul in the aftermath of the bold kidnapping of 23 fellow South Korean aid workers by the Taliban on Thursday.
All Kandahar City humanitarian efforts by that country will soon be halted as the rest of the group is recalled to Korea.