blog.wired.com - 1/9/2009
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For the third time in eight months, a social scientist with the Army's Human Terrain cultural research program has died. In early November, while on patrol in an Afghan village, Paula Loyd was doused with a flammable liquid, and set...
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... in flammable liquid by a local man she was interviewing and set on fire. Although her companions rescued her, she still had 2nd and 3rd burns over sixty percent of her body and was medivac'ed to Texas for treatment. According to news reports, she died today. ...
Third "Human Terrain" Researcher Dead (Afghanistan)
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... later, a bomb detonated inside the Sadr City District Council building in Iraq. Social scientist Nicole Suveges was inside. She and 11 others died instantly. The small staff of the Human Terrain program is "reeling" from this latest death, one employee tells Danger Room. "Paula dearly loved Afghanistan -- it showed in the way her face lit up whenever she spoke of it. In the field, her work was stellar, and more than that, she was deeply kind, too. We'll miss her terribly." Read more: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/third-human-ter.h... This is so horrifying. Another ...
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