American Woman Kidnapped And Executed By Taliban
She was a 50 year old humanitarian aid worker from Eureka, California.
Southwestern Baptist Theological seminary graduate apparently has been killed after being kidnapped by gunmen in Afghanistan a month ago, a humanitarian aid foundation reported Tuesday.
Cyd Mizell, 50, an aid worker who taught Afghan women income-producing skills such as sewing, and driver Muhammad Hadi, another aid worker, were abducted Jan. 26 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
They served with the nonprofit Asian Rural Life Development Foundation.
“We have received information over the past few days indicating that our two aid workers have been killed,” foundation officials said on the organization’s Web site, www.arldf.net.
Kandahar, in southeastern Afghanistan, was the Taliban’s capital before the fundamentalist group was overthrown by a U.S.-led coalition in 2001. The region remains infiltrated with 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 had “a quiet strength and was a great mentor,” said Terri Stovall, Southwestern’s dean of women’s programs. Stovall lived two doors away from Mizell in a Southwestern dormitory when they were seminary students 20 years ago.
“She was kind of the mother of the hall, because she was a bit older than most of us,” said Stovall, 44. “Sometimes you can get wrapped up in academics, but she really wanted to know what was going on in our lives. When things were rough, she was there for you. And when they were positive, she celebrated with you.”
Mizell, a native of Eureka, Calif., graduated from Southwestern with a master of divinity degree in 1990.
She had lived in Kandahar since 2005, teaching English to high school students and job skills to women.
Mizell often did needlepoint while at Southwestern, Stovall said.
“Everything she made, she gave away,” Stovall said. “When I found out what she was doing in Afghanistan, I thought that was probably the perfect thing for her. I can see her doing that.”
When Stovall’s grandmother died in another state, Mizell hurried down the hall to offer help and sympathy, she said.
“Her face was the first one at my door,” Stovall said. “I remember her saying, ‘We’ve got to find a way to get you to an airport.’”
A man who answered the phone Tuesday at the Seattle 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.
(AP)
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Strange enough I just did a search on ABC News website for ‘American Woman Kidnapped And Executed By Taliban’ and couldn’t find this story.
I wonder why ABC…oh, that’s right; ABC reporting this story would be counterproductive to CAIR’s agenda.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:48 amThere IS a very special place in Hell for this evil … kneeling on their bloody and filthy knees smack in front of Satan … their mouth(s) gaping … for ALL eternity.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:02 amA very special place in hell
How can the MSM have any sympathy for these assholes? More of them need to be sent over on a “fact-finding” mission, outside the green zone.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:12 am“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.” Well I’ll be the blue guy holding his breath waiting on the denouncement by the savages in suits, i.e. the muslim next door.
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“I’m confused why my daughter would be taken because she’s a gentle, caring and respectful person,” he wrote.
>> Welcome to the world of islam
February 27th, 2008 at 11:15 amTakes a lot of guts and courage to kidnap a 50 year old woman and execute her! Wow! What a bunch of tough men! No, what a bunch of infected pecker heads. They all deserve any death and maiming that comes their way from our troops and anything else that might harm them. I truly wish really, really bad mojo to come upon them all.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:34 amyea im really wondering if this will ever reach primetime news? probably if anything like a 5-10 second clip
February 27th, 2008 at 11:35 amfigures
I’ve tried to explain to hippy-chicks that there are people out there who really, really want to kill them, and the only way to stop them is to kill them first.
They almost never get it. They usually say us ‘reichwingers’ are just as bad. One of these days, I’ll have a few too many
and tell them exactly what those fine turbaned gentlemen would do to them before they died.
Moral equivalence: looking at a wolf and a sheep dog and being unable to tell the difference.
February 27th, 2008 at 11:40 amShe probably insulted them by explaining that they are following a false prophet and that faith in Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven. She is a true martyr.
Chances are, she knew more about Islam than they did.
February 27th, 2008 at 1:41 pmOur church supported her. We have been praying for her since her abduction. We have also been praying for her captors. I have a 6 yr. old daughter named Chloe. When we heard the news while sitting in church I looked at my wife and said, “what if that was Chloe?” Cyd was someones Chloe.
However, Rome was in part destroyed by the blood of martyrs like Cyd who didn’t flinch or run away when God called them into the fire or into lion’s dens. She is one of the bravest people I know. Like so many of our soldiers who put principal and life mission above comfort or personal peace and affluence.
Cyd knew as any who follow Jesus do that our battle is not so much with flesh and blood as with spiritual powers who influence empty people. That’s why we prayed for her captors because until they bend their knees to the one true God there will never be peace in their land. As long as they can continue to kidnap and kill saints like Cyd there must be those who hunt and kill them. There must also be those like Cyd who by her bravery and love for them shame them and condemn their worldviews by comparison.
Don’t be sad for Cyd. She had a better time in the first 5 min. after her death than she did in the 50 yrs. prior.
February 27th, 2008 at 2:21 pmGod is a good god and his greatest jewels are those people like Cyd who would lay down their life for their faith in Him.
“I’m confused why my daughter would be taken because she’s a gentle, caring and respectful person,” he wrote.
gentle, caring, respectful Kafir. thats why? dont understand, ask a muslim what is kafir? then ask them if kafirs must die, if they studder or hesitate, youll understand that the hatred of Allah consumes them.
February 27th, 2008 at 3:52 pmShe’s a real Shaheen. This is real martyrdom. Not that bs that Islamic pschopaths teach.
No doubt that they tried to force her to accept Islam and for refusing to do so, they murdered her.
Yeah, this is real Islamofacist tolerance at its best.
While she now enjoys heaven, the pricks that did this crime will be locked into the deepest dungeons of hell one day for their crimes.
It’ll be a beautiful thing when justice comes to these Islamo-murders. No air, no water, no hope, no peace…when they all arrive in hades. And the fun will only be beginning for them. They get to look forward to the second death…while the good lady enjoys heaven forever.
God Bless her family and friends.
February 27th, 2008 at 3:55 pmAll that can be done is to open up that can of whoop-ass! Damn the collateral damage. I’m done giving a fuck about those innocents who will just grow up to wear bombs.
February 27th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
God bless Cyd Mizell’s soul.
February 27th, 2008 at 7:00 pmMay the killers rot for eternity.