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Ten medical/dental volunteers from the International Assistance Mission were gunned down in Nuristan province last weekend. They were Dr. Tom Little, Dan Terry, Dr. Thomas Grams, Dr. Karen Woo, Glen Lapp, Cheryl Beckett, Brian Carderelli, Daniella Beyer, and 2 Afghani assistants. The Taliban immediately claimed credit for this mass murder, charging the group with "espionage" and "trying to convert Muslims to Christianity," which the International Assistance Mission denied. But this unarmed group could just as easily have fallen victim to one of the gangs of bandits that infest that part of the country.