On Saturday, we were told that abducted Scottish aid worker Linda Norgrove had been killed when one of her captors exploded a suicide vest, during a rescue attempt:
[K]illed by her captors early Saturday during an unsuccessful rescue raid, according to the British Foreign Office.
New York Times
On Monday, we were told that she had been killed when a Navy SEAL threw a grenade into the room where she was being held:
[M]ay have been killed by a grenade detonated by a United States special forces unit — not by a suicide bomber’s vest from her Taliban captors, as the American command in Afghanistan suggested when it confirmed her death on Saturday.
New York Times
[E]vidence and subsequent interviews with the personnel involved suggest that Linda could have died as a result of a grenade detonated by the task force during the assault.
Prime Minister David Cameron, via BBC
Once again, the government version of events has fallen apart. How many times now has this happened?
There was a dull sense of inevitability as David Cameron announced yesterday the "deeply regrettable" news that Linda Norgrove was not after all killed when one of her captors detonated a suicide vest but probably by an American grenade.
How often have we been here before?
Independent
Some Dependable Facts in the Matter
Linda Norgrove was a Scottish aid worker for Development Alternatives Inc. in Afghanistan. She was a manager on a project that supports alternatives to poppy cultivation, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Norgrove and three Afghans had set out on September 26, from Jalalabad to more remote Kunar province to the northeast. Their two vehicles were headed to the ribbon-cutting ceremony for an irrigation canal. They were abducted, likely on the main road in Chawkay district.
A large scale search of the region was conducted.
A Navy SEALs rescue raid was launched before dawn on October 9. Linda Norgrove was killed in the raid.
Some Other Facts in the Matter
Security guards, and the firefight after the abduction:
How her three Afghan companions got away:
Who the captors were:
Where the rescue occurred:
How her captors killed her:
What happened to her captors: