John Granville

John Granville and his driver have been killed in a shooting in Sudan on January 1, 2008.

1. Age: 33
2. Resided: Buffalo, New York
3. Worked for: U.S. Agency for International Development
4. Shot five times in the hand, shoulder and belly
5. Alma Mater: Fordham University
6. Master's in International Development, Clark University

• Google News: John Granville
• Associated Press: Unknown Group Claims US Diplomat Killing (January 4, 2008)
• CNN.com: Group Claims Responsibility for Killing U.S. Diplomat in Sudan (January 4, 2008)
• FoxNews: Previously Unknown Extremist Group Claims Slaying of U.S. Diplomat in Sudan (Jan. 4, 2008)
  • A group calling itself "Ansar al-Tawhid" (or "Companions of Monotheism") has claimed responsibility for the attack on Granville on its website. The statement has not been confirmed.
• Associated Press: FBI Arrives in Sudan for Diplomat Death (January 3, 2008)
• New York Times: "Sudanese Police Talk to Witnesses in Death" (January 3, 2008)
• WKBW: Granville's Death Investigated While His Life is Treasured (January 2, 2008)
• ABC News: Sudan Police Probe US Diplomat's Death (January 2, 2008)
  • "Granville was working to implement a 2005 peace agreement between Sudan's north and south that ended more than two decades of civil war, USAID said."
• WGRZ: Scholarship Set in Memory of Local U.S. Diplomat Killed in Africa (January 2, 2008)
• International Herald Tribune: Diplomat from New York slain in Sudan remembered... (January 2, 2008)
  • "Granville, who was from Buffalo, was working for the U.S. Agency for International Development as part of a team trying to implement a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of civil war between north and south Sudan."
• WKBW: South Buffalo Native Killed (January 2, 2008)
• AFP: White House: Slaying in Sudan 'tragic' (January 2, 2008)
  • "The White House on Wednesday called the New Year's day slaying of a US diplomat and his driver in Sudan "a tragic situation" and that the killer's motives were not yet known."
• Spiegel Online: The World from Berlin: 'UN Force in Darfur Is Slow and Without Teeth' (January 2, 2008)
  • "Sudan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ali Sadig told reporters on Tuesday that Granville's murder "was isolated and has no political or ideological connotations," and that the culprits "would be apprehended." However, Walter Braunohler, a public diplomacy officer at the US embassy in Khartoum, was more suspicious, saying that it was "too early to tell" whether the attack was terror-related."
• Associated Press: "US Diplomat Killed in Sudan Shooting" (January 1, 2008)
• BBC News: US Diplomat Dies in Sudan Attack (January 1, 2008)
• CNN.com: American Diplomat Dies After Sudan Car Attack, U.S. Official Says (January 1, 2008)
• International Herald Tribune: "U.S. Diplomat Dies After Shooting in Sudan" (January 1, 2008)
• New York Times: "U.S. Diplomat Hurt in Sudan Shooting - New York Times (January 1, 2008)
• AFP: US Embassy Official Shot, Driver Killed in Sudan (January 1, 2008)
• CNN.com: FBI to probe U.S. diplomat death (January 1, 2008)

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• Too Huge World: a few words on the diplomat death in khartoum (January 2, 2008)

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