surge update: UK leader: aid worker may have died at US hands

[spanone]

LONDON -- Kidnapped British aid worker Linda Norgrove may have been killed by her American rescuers, rather than her Taliban captors, Prime Minister David Cameron and a NATO spokesman said Monday.

Cameron said the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, had informed him that Norgrove was possibly killed by a grenade detonated by a member of the U.S. special forces rescue team. But he said the full facts had not been established, and a full U.S.-U.K. investigation was being held.

Norgrove, 36, was killed Friday in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province. NATO initially said she died when captors detonated a bomb as NATO forces attempted to free her.

Lt. Col. John Dorrian, a spokesman at NATO headquarters in Kabul, said Monday that the rescue mission leader saw surveillance footage of the incident and had discussions with members of the rescue team, and decided "it was not conclusive what the cause of her death was."

The rescue mission leader spoke with Petraeus, who requested the investigation, Dorrian said. The investigation will be led by U.S. Central Command.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/11/AR2010101101584_pf.html