I am aghast tonight over the tragic news of a British physician, Karen Woo, and ten other aid workers killed this week by gunmen in an ambush in a remote area of northern Afghanistan. The team was on site working at an eye clinic they had earlier established. In fact, in 2003 their organization provided care to 234,570 outpatients and performed 14,618 eye operations – most of them to restore site to those blinded by cataracts. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told reporters militants killed the foreigners because they were ‘spying for the Americans’ and ‘preaching Christianity’.