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Operations, maternal and children's health. now what is really the question is why exactly were they killed. at this news conference some of those questions came up, did it start as a robbery, did the taliban actually directly target them. the head of this organization, the international assistance mission, dirk frans says is he not sure that it was actually the taliban directly targeting them, that the police told them it might have been a robbery. but there is an investigation going on by the ministry of the interior. and also, after this news conference, we did speak with dirk frans about t...

harris this morning. those stories and your comments right here, right now in the cnn newsroom. we're learning more about the six american medical aid workers gunned down by the taliban. their bodies being handed over to the u.s. embassy in kabul. they were among ten multi nationals killed last week in a remote reachen in afghanistan. we just heard from one of the aid organizations involved to help the afghan people. >> last friday, we learned that the team was missing. we had known earlier that glen was traveling with him. i.m. lost touch with the team thursday evening. three vehi...

what did we learn from that news conference? >> reporter: well, john, it was a pretty emotional news conference because after all, this organization, the international assistance mission, has lost ten really good people and a couple of them very, very experienced. what they described were as they put it, not saints but consummate professionals. many of them had worked for years in this country bringing help. one of the things that they especially do is eye clinics. this group, it was a team that was trekking over 100 miles into very, very dense forest and going to people who got abso...

Correspondent jill dougherty has been covering it from the beginning in kabul. what is the latest you're hearing about the attack? >> reporter: that last point about why it hatched and who attacked them, that's really one of the outstanding problems in the midst of this extremely sad moment. you know, today, we were at a news conference by the international assistance mission that is the ngo, christian ngo, for whom these aid workers volunteered, and they described the people who went into the forest trekking 100 miles into the forest in a remote part of afghanistan, described their dedication...