Diplomat killed in Afghanistan 'was the rock of our team'

Anne Smedinghoff was the first U.S. diplomat to be killed since the horrific attack on the Benghazi consulate on September 11th, 2012. On Saturday, the…But the public diplomacy officer for the U.S. Embassy in Kabul was always pushing to get out. "We thought she was relatively safe in the embassy compound, but as it turned out, Anne really wanted to do a lot more," her father, Tom Smedinghoff, told CNNA suicide bomb attack in southern Afghanistan resulted in the deaths of five Americans and an Afghan doctor on Saturday. Of those killed was Anne Smedinghoff, a 25-year-old foreign service officer, who was traveling with the group through the provinceThe full text, from the State Department, of Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks today in Istanbul on the killing Saturday in Afghanistan of State Department diplomat Anne Smedinghoff, a native of west suburban River Forest. According to the StateThe full text, from the State Department, of Secretary of State John Kerry's remarks today in Istanbul on the killing Saturday in Afghanistan of State Department diplomat Anne Smedinghoff, a native of west suburban River Forest. According to the State
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