LONDON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The parents of a kidnapped British aid worker killed in Afghanistan say they are grateful U.S. officials did not cover up the bungled rescue effort.
John and Lorna Norgrove, who live in the island of Lewis in the Scottish Hebrides, gave an interview to the BBC, their first since Linda Norgrove was killed, The Daily Telegraph reported. They said they realize they might never know exactly what happened or whether their daughter would have survived if U.S. forces had not tried to free her from her abductors.
"It would appear to us that the rescue attempt was so close to being a total success and at the end there is what appears to have been a human error," John Norgrove said. "But we do think that it's very creditable of the Americans to own up that there's been a mistake when they could so easily have covered the whole thing up. We do think they deserve credit for that and we've obviously got to wait for the outcome of the report the American and British military are making".
Linda Norgrove, 36, who was in Afghanistan with Development Alternatives Inc., was kidnapped Sept. 26 by the Taliban. She was killed two weeks later.
Her parents said they learned of her death when police officers came to their home at 3 a.m.
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