Thumbnail sketches of 10 slain in attack on medical mission in northern Afghanistan

Sketches of 10 people slain in Afghan aid attack

— Team leader Tom Little, 61, of Delmar, New York, had worked in Afghanistan since the late 1970s and was the “driving force” in the efforts of the International Assistance Mission, or IAM, to expand vision care in the country. Fluent in the Afghan language Dari, Little and his wife raised three daughters in Kabul despite political turmoil and a bloody civil war.

— Dan Terry, 63, of Wisconsin, first came to Afghanistan in 1971. He and his wife settled in the country in 1980 and raised three daughters. He worked with impoverished, rural ethnic groups.

— Dr. Karen Woo, 36, the lone Briton, gave up her job with a private clinic in London to work in Afghanistan. An aspiring documentary filmmaker, she was planning to leave in a few weeks to get married, friends said.

— Glen Lapp, 40, a trained nurse from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, came to Afghanistan in 2008 for a limited assignment but decided to stay, serving as an executive assistant at IAM and manager of its provincial eye care program.

— Dr. Thomas Grams, 51, quit his dental practice in Durango, Colorado, four years ago to work full-time giving poor children free dental care in Afghanistan and Nepal. His twin brother, Tim, said Grams wasn’t trying to spread religious views.

— Cheryl Beckett, 32, grew up in Indiana but her family now lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, where her father is a pastor. She spent six years in Afghanistan and specialized in nutritional gardening and mother-child health, her family said. Her job on the trip was to translate for women patients.

— Daniela Beyer, 35, of Chemnitz, Germany, was a linguist and a translator in German, English and Russian. She also spoke Dari and was learning Pashto. She worked for the IAM from 2007 to 2009 and joined the eye camp so that she could translate for women patients.

— Brian Carderelli, 25, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, was a freelance videographer who worked as a public relations manager for the International School of Kabul.

— Mahram Ali, 50, an Afghan from eastern Wardak province had worked as a watchman with NOOR eye hospital in Kabul since 2007. He guarded the team’s vehicles as they left them to trek more than 100 miles (160 kilometers) into Nuristan. He leaves behind a wife and three young children.

— Jawed, a 24-year-old Afghan from Panjshir province, was the team’s cook. He worked as a cook at a government eye hospital in Kabul and had been given time off to go with the IAM team.