Ham Among Americans Killed in Afghan Attack

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U.S. amateur James McLaughlin, WA2EWE/T6AF, was among the nine Americans killed in a shooting at Kabul airport Wednesday when an Afghan military pilot opened fire in an operations room of the Afghan Air Corps, according to Voice of America reporter and fellow amateur Steve Herman, W7VOA/T6AD.  According to Herman, the attack was the worst single episode of an Afghan turning against his coalition partners. More information at http://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/. This is very sad. Jim was very active on CW, RTTY and SSB. R.I.P Jim!