A photojournalist was killed by Taliban fighters, Reuters says
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A photojournalist has been killed in a Taliban attack while covering the terrorist organization's reconquering of the country this summer. Danish Siddiqui, 38, whom Reuters called a "star photojournalist," worked for the news agency and went to Afghanistan in July.
Siddiqui and two Afghan commandos were killed in a Taliban attack on July 16, while forces were trying to retake the key border town of Spin Boldak. Reuters says reports indicate he was trying to take photographs in the bazaar when he was first injured by shrapnel from a rocket. He had been in the country only a few days. The New Delhi-based Siddiqui had said he wanted to go. "If we don't go, who will?" he told his boss, according to Reuters.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.