Gunman Hitched Ride With Doomed Medics

The doomed team of medics stopped to pick up three hitchhikers in the unforgiving Afghanistan terrain. When they came to a river, two jumped off the four-wheel-drive vehicles and went on their way, while the third, a man with a patchy beard, "quickly disappeared." The team crossed the river; minutes later, all lay dead at the hands of militants who joined the hitchhiker, save one—the Afghan driver who gives his continued account of the group's last moments to the AP.

"They had made a plan," says the driver, Safiullah. "It was a very organized group. They had leadership. They were well-organized. They were militants. If it's 100 years later and I see them, I'll know them." (More Afghanistan war stories.)