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	Ricardo Munguia
		A water engineer, Richardo Munguia was a citizen of both Switzerland and El Salvador.
		According to Abdul Salam[?], who witnessed Munguia's murder, after stopping Munguia and his three-vehicle convoy, gunmen made a mobile phone call to Mullah Dadullah[?].
		When the conversation ended the gunmen shoved Munguia behind one of the vehicles, siphoned gasoline from the tanks and used it to set the vehicles on fire.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ri/Ricardo_Munguia.html (251 words)

	In brief
		Ricardo Munguía, an ICRC water and habitat engineer, was killed on 27 March in Uruzgan province, southern Afghanistan.
		Ricardo, who was travelling together with Afghan colleagues on an assignment to improve the water supply in the town of Tirin Kot, was shot by a group of unidentified assailants who stopped the vehicles in which the ICRC staff were travelling.
		Ricardo Munguía, who was 39, joined the ICRC in 1999 and had worked for the organization in Colombia, the Republic of the Congo and Angola.
	www.redcross.int /EN/mag/magazine2003_2/in_brief.html (1557 words)

	UNAMA - Statements by SRSG - 30 March 2003
		Brahimi, strongly condemns the brutal and callous killing of Ricardo Munguia, a water supply engineer with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on 27 March in Shah Wali Kot District, Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan.
		Munguia was murdered because he was a foreigner.
		Munguia, like every member of the international community in Afghanistan, was here for the sole purpose of helping the neediest to improve their living conditions.
	www.unama-afg.org /news/_statement/SRSG/2003/03mar30.htm (326 words)

	Homage to a slain delegate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Ricardo Munguia (39), ICRC water engineer, was shot dead in Afghanistan on 27 March 2003.
		In a message from San Salvador, Ricardo's family said his death reminds us all that much remains to be done to attain peace in the world.
		Ricardo, he said, managed to "combine professional skills with compassion, which is what first-class humanitarian work should be about".
	www.icrc.org /Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/5LFCGD (426 words)

	Swiss ICRC delegate murdered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Ricardo Munguia, a Swiss citizen of Salvadorian origin was travelling with Afghan colleagues on an assignment to improve the water supply to the district.
		Whereas it was difficult to say whether Munguia was singled out because he was foreign, Bouvier conceded that he had been the only international staff member present, but said it was too early to reach such a conclusion.
		In the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, 110 km south of Tarin Kowt, foreign workers were closeted in a room of the Red Cross office, while Afghan employees sat silently or talked quietly in small groups outside, waiting for word from headquarters in Geneva, the AP report said.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=33126 (715 words)

	Resurgent Taliban back and killing in Afghanistan - smh.com.au
		Kill him, the order came back, and Ricardo Munguia, whose body was found with 20 bullet wounds last month, became the first foreign aid worker to die in Afghanistan since the Taliban lost power 18 months ago.
		After stopping Munguia and his three-vehicle convoy, gunmen made a phone call to Mullah Dadullah, a powerful former Taliban commander who happens to have an artificial leg provided by the Red Cross.
		They shoved Munguia behind one of the vehicles, siphoned gasoline from the tanks and used it to set the vehicles on fire.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/04/07/1049567615500.html (890 words)

	USATODAY.com - Red Cross worker killed in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		GENEVA (AP) — An international Red Cross staff member was fatally shot by gunmen Thursday in southern Afghanistan, prompting the humanitarian aid agency to suspend operations across the country.
		Ricardo Munguia, a water engineer, was killed while on assignment with several Afghan colleagues in Uruzgan province, said Annick Bouvier, spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
		Munguia, 39, was a citizen of both Switzerland and El Salvador.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-03-27-red-cross-death_x.htm (291 words)

	Untitled Document
		Ricardo Munguía, miembro del comité internacional de la cruz roja, murió abatido a tiros en ayer en la provincia de Uruzgán, durante un asalto a un vehículo de la institución
		El salvadoreño Ricardo Munguía, de 39 años, ingeniero hidráulico de profesión, fue asesinado a balazos ayer en la provincia de Uruzgán, en el sur de Afganistán, cuando el vehículo en el que viajaba con otros compañeros fue asaltado por desconocidos.
		El CICR detalla que Ricardo Munguía viajaba con colegas afganos rumbo a la ciudad de Tirin Kot para realizar obras de mejora del abastecimiento de agua.
	www.elsalvador.com /elsalvador/enelmundo/nota183.html (715 words)

	Hostilities flare again in America's other war \| csmonitor.com
		Their four-vehicle convoy was on reconnaissance patrol near Gereshk, about 80 miles west of Kandahar, when four assailants on two motorcycles opened fire and then escaped, according to Dad Mohammed Khan, the Helmand intelligence chief.
		Munguia with a shot to the head, his attackers warned Red Cross workers traveling with him not to assist foreigners.
		Afghan forces Sunday were engaged in fierce fighting with Taliban forces reportedly connected to Munguia's death in the nearby town of Khakrez, according to US and Afghan officials.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0331/p01s04-wosc.htm (885 words)

	Yet again NGOs cite serious security concerns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Ricardo Munguia, a Swiss citizen of Salvadorian origin, was travelling with Afghan colleagues on an assignment to improve the water supply to Tarin Kowt District in the southern province of Oruzgan.
		“It is deeply saddening that incidents such as Ricardo’s death have to happen for the world to be alerted to the fragility of the political situation in Afghanistan today,” an advocacy coordinator for ACBAR, Barbara Stapleton, told IRIN in Kabul.
		She added that the UN had warned for months that a war in Iraq would provide an opportunity for the destabilisation of Afghanistan by elements seeking to overthrow the central government as international attention focused elsewhere.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=33184 (676 words)

	Lean Left: Losing Afghanistan
		Southern Afghanistan in particular has been wracked by several attacks in the last few weeks by suspected Taliban fighters, including the murder of a Red Cross worker Ricardo Munguia and an ambush on a U.S. military convoy that killed two American servicemen.
		Kill him, the order came back, and Munguia, whose body was found with 20 bullet wounds last month, became the first foreign aid worker to die in Afghanistan since the Taliban's ouster from power 18 months ago.
		The soldiers and police who were supposed to be the bedrock of a stable postwar Afghanistan have gone unpaid for months and are drifting away.
	www.leanleft.com /archives/001182.html (1198 words)

	americas.org - Latin Americans Killed in U.S. War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Ricardo Munguia, a Salvadoran water engineer working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was killed in Oruzgan province in southern Afghanistan on March 27 when a group of about 25 heavily armed men held up the convoy he was traveling with.
		The attackers reportedly pulled Munguia out his car and radioed their commander to ask what to do with the foreigner.
		The Afghani members of the Red Cross were not harmed, and the attackers drove off, seizing two vehicles and looting others.
	www.americas.org /item_8306 (329 words)

	Press Release: April 9, 2003: Death of ICRC Staff Member in Baghdad
		The United States is saddened by the death of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegate Vatche Arslanian in Baghdad on Tuesday and would like to express its deepest sympathies to the families of the deceased and to the larger community that makes up the Red Cross Movement.
		Arslanian's death follows closely on the heals of the March 27 death of another ICRC delegate (Ricardo Munguia) in Afghanistan.
		In Iraq and Afghanistan, as is the case in other conflict zones across the globe, the International Committee of the Red Cross is concerned by the plight of civilians.
	www.us-mission.ch /press2003/0409ICRC.htm (160 words)

	T-Zero Publishing Build 10 - Special Reports: American Forces Press Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Ricardo Munguia, the worker, was an engineer specializing in water projects.
		Munguia was the first humanitarian worker killed since the Taliban fell.
		A coalition assault team built around an 82nd Airborne Division unit took intelligence gleaned from the raid and conducted an air assault search-and-seizure mission north of Kandahar yesterday.
	www.iwaynet.net /~tzeropublishing/specials/articles/20030423a.shtml (268 words)

	Délégué du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) tué en Afghanistan- Croix-Rouge canadienne (via ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Genève (CICR) – le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) est profondément choqué et consterné par le meurtre de l'un de ses délégués sur le terrain, Ricardo Munguía, ingénieur en eau et habitat, le 27 mars, dans la province d'Ourouzgan (sud de l'Afghanistan).
		Ricardo Munguía, 39 ans, travaillait pour le CICR depuis 1999 et avait effectué des missions en Colombie, en République du Congo et en Angola.
		Le CICR partage la douleur et l'indignation des parents, des amis et des collègues de Ricardo Munguía et présente ses sincères condoléances à ses proches.
	www.croixrouge.ca.cob-web.org:8888 /main.asp?id=002721 (204 words)

	On the roads of ruin
		The bandit commander used his satellite telephone to speak to an unknown third party, thought to be in Pakistan.
		The moment the call finished, Munguia was thrown into a roadside ditch, and shot.
		What gives this wretched episode extra poignancy is the fact that the bandit commander's life had been saved by the Red Cross a year earlier.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3542.htm (3309 words)

	Weekend Pundit: Whither Afghanistan?
		In a story by AP writer Kathy Gannon published in the Laconia, NH Citizen (no link available), Gannon describes the execution of an International Red Cross worker by Taliban gunmen.
		Ricardo Munguia, a water engineer from Ecuador, was the first foreign aid worker to die in Afghanistan since the Taliban were forced from power a year and a half ago.
		The soldiers and police who were supposed to be the bedrock of a stable Afghanistan have gone unpaid for months and are drifting away.
	weekendpundit.blogmosis.com /lastweekend/006686.html (585 words)

	Worldandnation: Taliban learns to adapt, survive
		KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Before executing the International Red Cross worker, the Taliban gunmen made a satellite telephone call to their superior for instructions: Kill him?
		Kill him, the order came back, and Ricardo Munguia, whose body was found with 20 bullet wounds last month, became the first foreign aid worker to die in Afghanistan since the Taliban's ouster from power 18 months ago.
		The manner of his death suggests the Taliban is not only determined to remain a force in this country, but is reorganizing and reviving its command structure.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/04/08/Worldandnation/Taliban_learns_to_ada.shtml (485 words)

	The Scotsman - Opinion - Comment - Problems ahead highlighted by Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		LAST week in Uruzgan, southern Afghanistan, a staff member of the International Red Cross was murdered in cold blood to no media attention at all.
		He was a water engineer named Ricardo Munguia and was just the latest casualty in the ongoing conflict.
		I make no apology for once again writing about this increasingly forgotten war.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /comment.cfm?id=405972003 (910 words)

	US-Afghan base attacked -DAWN - Top Stories; April 3, 2003
		The International Security Assistance Force headquarters compound in central Kabul also came under rocket attack for the first time on Sunday night.
		Humanitarian organisations have suspended field trips following the execution-style killing of Salvadoran-born water engineer Ricardo Munguia in southern Uruzgan province last Thursday.
		Meanwhile, near Gardez, capital of eastern Paktia province, US troops were on Tuesday night accidentally fired on by Afghan militia soldiers but there were no casualties, Captain Cramer said.
	www.dawn.com /2003/04/03/top12.htm (237 words)

	Afghanistan: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegate slain - Canadian Red Cross (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Afghanistan: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegate slain
		Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply shocked and dismayed by the killing of one of its field delegates, Ricardo Munguía, a water and habitat engineer, on 27 March in Uruzgan province, southern Afghanistan.
		Mr Munguía, who was travelling together with Afghan colleagues on an assignment to improve the water supply in the town of Tirin Kot, was shot in cold blood by a group of unidentified assailants who stopped the vehicles in which the ICRC staff were travelling.
	www.redcross.ca.cob-web.org:8888 /main.asp?id=002720 (197 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Donate to FR Articles indexed to munguia (in order of time indexed.)
		BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. Special Forces believe they have killed the man who fatally shot a Red Cross worker last month in southern Afghanistan, an army spokesman said Wednesday.
		Special forces soldiers launched an operation on Monday aimed at capturing those responsible for the murder of Ricardo Munguia, which took place in March on a road in southern Helmand province, said Lt. Col.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=munguia (592 words)

	#13 Ricardo Munguia, Third Base, 25 yrs, No Team - Out of the Park Baseball Report (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
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