John Granville takes one for team america in the Sudan
Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ali As Sadeq downplayed the idea that the diplomat had been targeted, saying the pre-dawn shooting was the result of a “street argument.”He said the streets of Khartoum were packed with cars leaving New Year’s celebrations and an argument broke out between people in two cars, one of which was carrying foreigners. [it was all an accidental accident you see :: New York Times, we sho brought you WMDs : a car pulled up next to him and 17 shots were fired. when was the last time you shot a man accidentally 17 times? we do it every other tuesday at propaganda press::Yahoo News::another vehicle cut off his car and opened fire before fleeing the scene, the Sudanese Interior Ministry said.]The argument escalated and one of the Sudanese fired on the car carrying the foreigners, resulting in the casualties, he said.Sudanese security forces are searching for the gunman, Sadeq said.Granville’s family said he became passionate about Africa after helping build a school in a rural Cameroon village as a Peace Corps volunteer. [don't they all start off as peace corps volunteers?]
so what exactly was johnny doing in the Sudan?
New York Times: Mr. Granville had served in Sudan as well as Nairobi, and had distributed short-wave radios to give rural residents a link to Usaid broadcasts and to increase civic involvement. A photo on the agency’s Web site shows Mr. Granville standing amid a crowd of African women, each holding a radio.
