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Published: Tue, January 29, 2008 - 1:05 pm
Last Updated: Tue, January 29, 2008 - 1:08 pm
More than 500 Afghan women gathered in a rare mass protest on Tuesday, against the kidnapping of an American aid worker.The women, many wearing burqas, called on officials to find the captive American and urged the kidnappers to release her.
Officials said they still had not identified any suspects in the kidnapping of Cyd Mizell and her Afghan driver, Abdul Hadi.
Gunmen abducted the two on Saturday in a residential neighbourhood in the southern city of Kandahar.
The demonstration by so many Afghan women in the conservative southern province of Kandahar was a rare display of women banding together publicly.
The 90-minute meeting was filled with prayers and speeches calling on government leaders to act.
Rona Tareen, director of the Kandahar Women's Association, urged Mizell's captives to free her immediately, saying she had helped Kandahar's women with small business projects.
Tareen said her kidnapping is "against our culture and tradition".
On Tuesday, there were still no suspects in the case and authorities were searching for clues.
No one has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.
A Taliban spokesman reiterated on Tuesday that they could neither confirm nor deny Taliban militants had taken the American woman and her driver.
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