WASHINGTON — Cydney Mizell, an aid worker teaching English in southern Afghanistan, vanished in 2008, abducted after being driven off the side of a road and presumed dead for 15 years. Members of her family, left with few other details of the circumstances surrounding her disappearance, wondered whether they would ever learn her fate. Jan Mizell, her younger sister, said she would tell people: “Somebody over there knows what happened to my sister. They’re just not talking.” Sign up for The Morni
WASHINGTON — Cydney Mizell, an aid worker teaching English in southern Afghanistan, vanished in 2008, abducted after being driven off the side of a road and presumed dead for 15 years. Members of her family, left with few other details of the circumstances surrounding her disappearance, wondered whether they would ever learn her fate. Jan Mizell, her younger sister, said she would tell people: “Somebody over there knows what happened to my sister. They’re just not talking.” Sign up for The Morni
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25 May 2021 - 16:53
KABUL (Pajhwok): The US has once again announced a reward up to five million American dollars for information concerning the kidnapping of Cydney Mizell who went missing in Afghanistan in 2008.
The US Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service, through its Rewards for Justice (RFJ) office, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced the reward last week. The RFJ reward offer is for information leading to the location, recovery, and return of Ms. Mizell.
Mizell was reported to have been abducted along with her driver, Muhammad Hadi, by unidentified gunmen in southern province of Kandahar on January 26, 2008.
Mizell and Hadi were likely killed by their captors in 2008. Mizell is believed to have been buried in Kandahar or the surrounding area. At the time of her disappearance, Mizell, who worked for an American development organization, taught English at Kandahar University and embroidery at a school for girls.
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Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said on Tuesday that the US troops withdrawal process is continuing “at pace with nothing more than minor harassing attacks that have had no impact.”
Addressing a press briefing, Kirby said the US hopes this remains the case going forward but that they are “not going to take anything just on hope and face value.
We have to assume, and we have to plan for the potential that it could be resisted and could be opposed by the Taliban. So we’re continuing to take all precautions, make sure that General [Scott] Miller [the commander of the Resolute Support Mission] has all the options at his disposal to be able to do this safely.”