Taliban claims it kidnapped election workers

International aid workers were keeping their heads down in Afghanistan today following the brazen daylight kidnapping of a woman from Northern Ireland and two other foreign UN election staff in the capital, Kabul.

Taliban claims it kidnapped election workers

International aid workers were keeping their heads down in Afghanistan today following the brazen daylight kidnapping of a woman from Northern Ireland and two other foreign UN election staff in the capital, Kabul.

The abductions heightened fears of Iraq-style attacks on outsiders helping to rebuild the war-shattered nation.

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