Washed It!

FBI agents helped identify six slain American medical volunteers whose bodies were flown to the Afghan capital on Sunday from the remote northeastern region where they had died in an ambush, the U.S. Embassy said.

Ten members of the charity group, who were providing eye-care and other health services to impoverished villagers in a rugged, isolated valley, were shot to death late last week as they tried to make their way back to Kabul. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, accusing the victims of preaching Christianity and spying for Western military forces.

The Christian organization sponsoring the mission, the International Assistance Mission, vehemently denied any proselytizing by the group and dismissed the notion that the doctors and those assisting them had spied for anyone.