State Department Changes Story On Afghanistan Blast That Killed Diplomat

Shades Of Benghazi: State Department Changes Story On Afghanistan Blast That Killed Diplomat -- Washington Times

The State Department has acknowledged that five U.S. personnel killed in Afghanistan, including 25-year-old diplomat Anne Smedinghoff, were on foot when they were attacked by a suicide bomber, and not in an armored vehicle, as officials had told bereaved relatives earlier this week.

The violent deaths of U.S. diplomatic personnel — and the State Department’s changing account of how they died — harken back to the debacle in Benghazi, Libya, where Islamist extremists killed four Americans in assaults on the U.S. diplomatic compound on Sept. 11.

“We are able to clarify at this point that they were in a walking movement from the [Provincial Reconstruction Team’s base] down to the school down the road,” State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters Wednesday.

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Update #1: Witness: Anne Smedinghoff, other Americans killed in Afghan bombing were on foot, lost -- McClatchy News
Update #2: The Death Of A Young Diplomat Is Only Half The Tragedy In Zabul -- Gary Owen, Business Insider/It's Always Sunny In Kabul

My Comment: Gary Owen's above comments sums up my own feelings on this tragedy .... in short .... these Americans died for nothing. As for the State Department changing their story on how she died .... for some reason I am not surprised.