"I feel like I've been stabbed in the back. I was here to help'

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-1967613,00.html

The Times January 03, 2006



'I feel like I've been stabbed in the back. I was here to help'
By Ian MacKinnon



THE British aid worker kidnapped and held for three days with her parents in Gaza, had a blazing row with her captors shortly before the family was released in a back street in the dead of night, she told The Times yesterday.


As the two Palestinian gunmen who had abducted Kate Burton and her parents, Hugh, 73, and Win, 55, prepared to video their captives as a condition of their release, she burst into a tear-filled rage demanding they be set free.

“The kidnappers were getting nervous and angry and started shouting at me,” she said. “They told me I was being disrespectful, despite all the food and blankets they’d given us. I got really mad. I screamed at him, ‘Do you want me to get down on my knees and say thank you, thank you?’

“I was exhausted and started crying and crying. I told them, ‘I came to work with these people and I feel like I’ve been stabbed in the back’.”

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1. Hmmmmmmm .......

looks like the PA needs some Dale Carnegie curriculum.

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2. some selling skills?

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3. Well Win Friends and Influence ......

dosen't look like they developed a commited customer in this case! ;)

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5. they kidnapped a "friend"

not very smart

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4. She "...plans to stay in the region...hopes to go on working for the Pals"

Ms Burton, who also speaks Hebrew and worked on a kibbutz, plans to stay in the region and hopes to go on working for the Palestinian people.