Kerry to Meet Parents of U.S. Diplomat Killed by Afghan Car Bomb

Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Monday with the parents of Anne Smedinghoff, the American diplomat who was killed in a car bombing in Afghanistan on April 6. Kerry will meet Smedinghoff's parents in Chicago, after flying back from Japan following a six-nation tour in Asia, NBC News reported. Smedinghoff, 25, was on her way to deliver books to a school in Qalat, Zabul province, when she and four other Americans were killed by a car bomb. Kerry, while in Tokyo, said that Smedinghoff's colleagues State Department “feels this enormously.” “It's all the promise of a young person with all of the idealism and energy, enthusiasm suddenly snuffed out in the quest of high ideals and great values,” Kerry said.

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