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6A – Daily News – Monday, August 9, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING Afghanistan victims had given years of service KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — One gave up a lucrative practice to give free dental care to children who had never seen a tooth- brush. Others had devoted whole decades of their lives to helping the Afghan peo- ple through war and depri- vation. The years of service ended in a hail of bullets in a remote valley of a land that members of the medical team had learned to love. The bodies of the 10 slain volunteers - six Ameri- cans, two Afghans, a Ger- man and a Briton - were flown Sunday back to Kabul by helicopter, even as friends and family bitterly rejected Taliban claims the group had tried to convert Afghans to Christianity. Also flown to the capital was the lone survivor of the attack, an Afghan driver who said he was spared because he was a Muslim and recited Islamic holy verses as he begged for his life. The International Assis- tance Mission, which orga- nized the trip, said the driver had been a trusted employee with four years of service. Police said they don’t know if he is a witness or an accomplice in the killings, claimed by the Taliban. Friends say medical team was not proselytizing DENVER (AP) — Members of a medical team gunned down in Afghanistan brought some of the first toothbrushes and eyeglasses villagers had ever seen and spent no time talk- ing about religion as they provided medical care, friends and aid organiza- tions said Sunday. Dr. Thomas Grams, 51, quit his dental practice in Durango, Colo., four years ago to work full-time giving impoverished children free dental care in Nepal and Afghanistan, said Katy Shaw of Global Dental Relief, a Denver-based group that sends teams of dentists around the globe. He was killed Thursday, Shaw said, along with five other Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton. ‘‘The kids had never seen toothbrushes, and Tom brought thousands of them,’’ said Khris Nedam, head of the Kids 4 Afghan Kids in Livonia, Mich., which builds schools and wells in Afghanistan. ‘‘He trained them how to brush their teeth, and you should’ve seen the way they smiled after they learned to brush their teeth.’’ The team was attacked after a two-week mission in the remote Parun valley of Nuristan province, about 160 miles (260 kilometers) north of Kabul. Their bullet- riddled bodies were found Friday, and were returned to Kabul Sunday aboard heli- copters. The families of the six Americans were formally notified of their deaths after U.S. officials confirmed their identities, said Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the embassy. Fishermen pray for bountiful shrimp season THERIOT, La. (AP) — Docked boats were bedecked with fluttering red, white and blue stream- ers and rainbows of balloons in a bayou-country, pre- shrimp season tradition known as the ‘‘Blessing of the Boats.’’ On the menu? Heaping trays of barbecued chicken, smoked sausage and potato salad — but no crabs or shrimp. Blame the BP oil spill. The company has plugged the leak and announced Sunday that cement sealing the busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico had hard- ened, clearing the path for the final phase of drilling a relief well. The future isn’t so clear for fishermen and their fam- ilies seeking blessings for a bountiful harvest and divine protection from the water’s dangers. They are wonder- ing if the waters will ever be the same again. ‘‘I’ve had ice chests of shrimp in my freezer all my life,’’ said Dita Dehart, 70, a lifelong area resident who was working on desserts in a back room of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, which has hosted the blessing on Bayou Dularge for more than 50 years. ‘‘I have none now.’’ HPCEO settles with accuser SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ousted Hewlett- Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd has settled allegations of sexual harassment lodged against him by a female contract worker for HP, a person with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press. The harassment accusa- tion set off a chain of events that led to the discovery of allegedly falsified expense reports for dinners Hurd had with the woman and culmi- nated in Hurd’s forced resig- nation Friday from the world’s largest technology company. Tehama County business operators: When folks search for what you’re selling, do they find your business? 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