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Unprecedented 11 abductions of ngo workers, just in july alone. and we have a map of afghanistan. this has taken place all over the country, four different provinces they mention. so it's not like there's one specific area they can go to or avoid to avoid the dangers that exist there. so abductions currently the biggest threat. all of them ultimately were resolved, though, via local community intervention. kind of playing along the lines of these ngos happening in the first place, creating relationships with people locally. let's come back to me for a second, because it's not just about abduct...

Going up right now to these people out there risking their lives to help those in need? well, it turns out, the man who oversees this group, the afghanistan safety office told our "american morning" today the threat has dropped a little. >> generally, attacks on ngos and humanitarians have actually been in decline. we have been monitoring attacks on aid agencies since 2002. and our latest data from 2010 showed a dropoff compared to the same period of last year. a lot of this is down to security protocols on behalf of the ngos, people who have restricted road movement, they have moved out of mo...

Giant spike here in mid 2008, the worst threats they have seen so far, and you do see that according to this threat chart that this group follows, it actually has gone down a bit. they also track killings here. and if you look at the green marks here, looking at 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, you are seeing a reduction overall in what this group tabulates for being the threats to ngo workers. now, none of this is going to make anyone feel better when they're looking at this horror and what's happened to these ten workers now inside afghanistan. and none of it means that everything is now safe or that...

The taliban arrived there today. they were part of a multinational medical team ambush and had killed, execution style. those killings -- the killings of those aide workers are really now raising new questions about the safety of other nongovernmental agencies in the war zone, with thousands of people, including many americans in afghanistan to help. are they facing growing danger? it's a big question, and one i know that we have been talking about, and a lot of people are asking. josh levs is here with some answers to that. hey, josh. >> hey, kate. i'll tell you, first of all, big picture. ...