Yes, news to me too.

Submitted by D B Burrill (United States), Feb 21, 2015 at 06:36

I did offhandedly wonder just what kind of aid work an American was doing in Syria when I heard of her death, which was the first time I heard of her kidnapping. Thanks for the illuminating article by Kaplan of just who she was and what she was doing in that part of the world. I would say it's astounding that this has not been revealed in the media coverage of her death, but I long ago stopped being astounded by Western Media's bias against Israel. What a waste of an existence, what a terrible result of an American liberal indoctrination-education. Unfortunately there are countless other young American do-gooders of her ilk. All spellbound by lies and hatred. All being churned out by upper middle-class liberal arts families.

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