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Obama pledges probe in kidnapped Briton’s death (AP)

October 12th, 2010

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a press conference in Downing Street in London, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, where he said aid worker Linda Norgrove, 36, who died in Afghanistan during a rescue attempt, may have been killed by her American rescuers, rather than her Taliban captors. Cameron said that Gen. David Petraeus had told him Norgrove was possibly killed by a grenade detonated by a member of the U.S. rescue team. But he says the full facts have not been established.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, pool)AP - President Barack Obama promised “to get to the bottom” of a failed rescue attempt by U.S. special forces that ended in the death a captive British aid worker in Afghanistan, after NATO said an American grenade may have killed her.


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