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	Egil Tynæs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Egil Tynæs born August 12, 1941 was a Norwegian doctor.
		On June 2, 2004 in Badghis, Afghanistan Tynæs and four others (Afghans Fasil Ahmad and Besmillah, Belgian Helene de Beir, and Dutchman Willem Kwint) were killed in an ambush whilst working for the humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières.
		Egil Tynaes worked in his everyday life as a senior doctor at the Municipal Outdoor Clinic in Bergen, Norway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egil_Tyn%C3%A6s (163 words)

	Colleagues mourn death of aid worker
		Dr Egil Kristian Tynæs was among five aid workers gunned down in their car, in an attack allegedly carried out by the Taliban.
		Egil Kristian Tynæs, a doctor from Bergen, was among relief workers killed in an ambush in Afghanistan on Wednesday.
		Tynaes, described by colleagues as an idealist, was working for the Norwegian branch of Medicins sans Frontieres (MSF) (Doctors Without Borders) in the Khair Khana area, about 550 kilometers west of Kabul.
	www.aftenposten.no /english/local/article801775.ece?service=print (371 words)

	Attacks on humanitarian workers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Badghis province, Afghanistan - June 2, 2004 - Five staff working for Médecins Sans Frontières were killed on the road between Khairkhana and Qala-I-Naw, resulting in the complete withdrawal of MSF from Afghanistan.
		The names of the murdered staff were: Hélène de Beir, Willem Kwint, Egil Tynaes, Fasil Ahmad and Besmillah.
		Darfur, Sudan - October 10, 2004 - A Save the Children vehicle was hit by an anti-tank landmine in the Um Barro area of North Darfur, Sudan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Attacks_on_humanitarian_workers (1638 words)

	Afghan Voice
		She was from Belgium and she was to turn 30 years old on June 16th.
		Egil Tynaes was 62 years old and a doctor from Norway.
		Besmillah was an Afghan hired to be a driver and had worked with DWB since October of last year.
	www.afghanvoice.blogspot.com (1437 words)

	UDHR - Heroes
		Egil Tynaes (62) worked as a senior doctor at the Municipal Outdoor Clinic in Bergen, Norway.
		Egil succeeded like nobody else in making real contact with the Afghan patients.
		Egil leaves behind his wife, three children and five grandchildren.
	www.universalrights.net /heroes/display.php3?id=117 (586 words)

	Aid agency medics to quit Afghanistan -DAWN - Top Stories; 29 July, 2004
		Five MSF aid workers were killed in a targeted attack in the northwest Afghan province of Badghis on June 2, an area previously considered safe.
		Belgian project coordinator Helene de Beir, Norwegian doctor Egil Tynaes, Dutch logistician Willem Kwint, Afghan translator Fasil Ahmad and driver Besmillah were killed when their vehicle was attacked with grenades and gunfire.
		The charity said the Afghan government's failure to conduct a "credible investigation" into the killings and the threat of future attacks on staff was behind their decision to withdraw from the country.
	www.dawn.com /2004/07/29/top15.htm (432 words)

	Duncan Campbell: Asia MSF halts Afghan operations - The Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Voting-registration sites in the province of Badghis, where the killings took place, have been closed while the security situation is assessed.
		The five MSF workers were identified as Hélène de Beir from Belgium, 30; Willem Kwint, 40, from the Netherlands; Egil Tynaes, 63, from Norway; and Fasil Ahmad, a translator, and Bismillah, a driver, both from Afghanistan.
		The five were travelling in a vehicle with MSF’s distinctive markings between Khairkhana and Qala-i-Naw in the Badghis province when their vehicle was attacked by a grenade and gunfire.
	www.selvesandothers.org /article1808.html (250 words)

	Welcome to www.kuwait-info.com
		The attack was the worst on MSF staff in a quarter century of work in the troubled country.
		Belgian project coordinator Helene de Beir, Norwegian doctor Egil Tynaes, Dutch logistician Willem Kwint, Afghan translator Fasil Ahmad and driver Besmillah died when their Toyota Landcruiser was hit by grenades and gunfire.
		The following month the Nobel Prize-winning medical relief agency pulled out of Afghanistan after 24 years, citing poor security and the government`s failure to launch a "credible" investigation into the killings.
	kuwait-info.com /newsnew/NewsDetails1.asp?id=54469&dt=6/16/2005&ntype= (286 words)

	Nettavisen: News in English
		The Norwegian Doctor Egil Kristian Tynæs and four other aid workers from Doctors Without Borders were killed in an ambush in north western Afghanistan Wednesday.
		The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack on the five aid workers, a Norwegian, a Dutchman, a Belgian and two Afghanis.
		Doctors Without Borders stated on their website that the Norwegian killed in the attack was 62-year-old Egil Kristian Tynæs from Bergen.
	pub.tv2.no /nettavisen/english/article233704.ece (535 words)

	Médecins Sans Frontières - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Retrieved Jan. 12, 2006. The organisation was forced to evacuate its teams from Afghanistan on July 28 2004,MSF Article (2004) The real reasons MSF left Afghanistan MSF.
		Retrieved Jan. 12, 2006. after five volunteers (Afghans Fasil Ahmad and Besmillah, Belgian Helene de Beir, Norwegian Egil Tynæs, and Dutchman Willem Kwint) were killed on June 2 in an ambush by Taliban militia near Khair Khana in Badghis province.MSF Article (2004) MSF pulls out of Afghanistan MSF.
		Arrests and abductions in politically unstable regions can also occur for volunteers, and in some cases, MSF field missions can be expelled entirely from a country.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Doctors_Without_Borders (6208 words)

	MSF to pull out of Afghanistan - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Five MSF employees were leaving their office in a vehicle near the provincial capital of Qalaye Naw in Baghdis province when unidentified gunmen opened fire, killing one woman and four men.
		They were identified as Belgian project coordinator Helene de Beir, Norwegian doctor Egil Tynaes, Dutch logistician Willem Kwint, Afghan translator Fasil Ahmad and driver Bismillah.
		Last month’s attack is further evidence of a growing wave of violence across Afghanistan in the run-up to landmark elections in September.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/july292004/f2.asp (504 words)

	MSF-USA: Field News In Memoriam
		He worked for MSF in 2002 in Baharak, Afghanistan and later went on to work in Badghis in March 2004, where he worked on a tuberculosis project and trained local medical staff.
		He became very close to the people and managed to gain their confidence.
		Egil leaves behind his wife, five children and five grandchildren.
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /news/2004/afghanistan_memorial.cfm (697 words)

	CBSNews.com: Print This Story
		Taliban rebels and their al Qaeda allies have killed at least 33 aid workers since March last year, most of them Afghans.
		The foreigners slain in the latest attack were identified as Egil Tynaes, a 63-year-old doctor from Norway, Willem Kwint, a 40-year-old Dutch man, and Helene de Beir, 30, from the Netherlands.
		Police investigating the incident said a farmer saw gunmen ambush the group Wednesday afternoon in a desert area near Khair Khana, a village 340 miles west of Kabul.
	uttm.com /stories/2004/06/04/world/printable621146.shtml (979 words)

	Medical group halts Afghanistan operation Oakland Tribune - Find Articles
		U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan "was distressed and angered" by the "cold-blooded" killings of the aid workers, U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said in a statement issued at the body's New York headquarters.
		The slain foreigners were identified as Egil Tynaes, a 63-year- old doctor from Norway, Dutch logistician Willem Kwint, 40, and project coordinator Helene de Beir, 30, from Belgium.
		The United Nations immediately halted voter registration in Badghis for September's planned general elections and grounded its refugee agency staff, but it was continuing activities elsewhere.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20040604/ai_n14573232 (712 words)

	InterAction.org \| Media
		CARE International is shocked and dismayed at the brutal murders yesterday of five employees of Medecins sans Frontieres in northwest Afghanistan.
		Our thoughts and condolences go out to the families, colleagues and friends of Helene de Beir (Belgium), Willem Kwint (Holland), Egil Tynaes (Norway), Fasil Ahmad (Afghanistan), and Besmillah (Afghanistan).
		They died while carrying out the life-saving humanitarian work for which MSF is so justly renowned.
	www.interaction.org /newswire/detail.php?id=2955 (225 words)

	MSF-USA: Field News 06/19/2004 MSF Vigil in New York City for Our Colleagues Killed in Afghanistan
		On the evening of Saturday, June 19, MSF held a vigil in front of the Ghandi statue in Union Square Park, Manhattan, for Hélène de Beir, Egil Tynaes, Pim Kwint, Besmillah, and Fasil Ahmad, who were killed in a brutal attack in Afghanistan on June 2.
		We created a shrine of photographs and text describing Helene, Egil, Pim, Besmillah, and Fasil, and placed our flowers in front of them, one by one, and tied our home-made MSF armbands to the fence surrounding the shrine before we left.
		The shrine remained in place for over a week, with many New Yorkers stopping as they passed by to pay their respects.
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /news/2004/06-19-2004.cfm (457 words)

	Charity suspends work in Afghanistan after five staff are killed -- Sheldon 328 (7453): 1398 -- BMJ
		A Norwegian doctor, Egil Tynaes, died along with Dutch logistics
		Dr Egil Tynaes, aged 62, was a senior doctor at a clinic in
		He had used periods of leave to work for aid organisations
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/328/7453/1398 (448 words)

	Taipei Times - archives
		The gunmen shot the car's occupants, walking around the vehicle as they fired.
		Those killed were Helene de Beir, 29, of Belgium; Dr. Egil Tynaes, 62, of Norway; Pim Kwint, 39, of the Netherlands; and two Afghans, Besmillah, the driver; and Fasil Ahmad, an interpreter.
		At the time, Amir Shah Nayebzada, the police chief of Badghis province, where the attack took place, blamed the Taliban, and a Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the killings.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/world/archives/2005/04/11/2003250029/print (465 words)

	USATODAY.com - Major relief agency suspends Afghan work after killing of 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		It called for more foreign troops to help Afghans provide security.
		The slain foreigners were identified as Egil Tynaes, a 63-year-old doctor from Norway, logistician Willem Kwint, a 40-year-old Dutchman, and project coordinator Helene de Beir, 30, from Belgium.
		Police investigating the incident said a farmer saw gunmen ambush the group Wednesday afternoon in a desert area near Khair Khana, a village 550 kilometers (340 miles) west of Kabul.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-06-03-msf-afghanistan_x.htm (916 words)

	The View from Number 80 - Skeptical Reviews - Backwards Glances 2004 part 3
		All this is done with the objective of rebuilding health structures to acceptable levels." Surely there is nothing there that even the most rabid zealot could object to, and yet on Wednesday five MSF personnel were murdered while trying to bring a little sanity and medicine to the people of Afghanistan.
		They were Hélène de Beir: Belgian national, Project Coordinator Willem Kwint: Dutch national, Logistician Egil Tynaes: Norwegian national, Medical Doctor Fasil Ahmad: Afghan national and Translator Besmillah: Afghan national, Driver.
		All killed by the Taliban, who fired on their car.
	www.eighty.btinternet.co.uk /page75.htm (14192 words)

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