Kathleen Kenna

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Members of Ramstein's 86th Aeromedical Airlift Squadron carry Canadian reporter Kathleen Kenna, injured in Afghanistan, from a C-9 Nightingale of the 75th Airlift Squadron to a waiting ambulance upon arrival at Ramstein AB, Germany, March 6. (Photo courtesy Michael Abrams, Stars and Stripes)
Members of Ramstein's 86th Aeromedical Airlift Squadron carry Canadian reporter Kathleen Kenna, injured in Afghanistan, from a C-9 Nightingale of the 75th Airlift Squadron to a waiting ambulance upon arrival at Ramstein AB, Germany, March 6. (Photo courtesy Michael Abrams, Stars and Stripes)

Kathleen Kenna is a Canadian journalist who was injured in a grenade attack in Afghanistan.[1]

Kenna began her career at the Toronto Star in the early 1980s as its Ontario news reporter. She worked on several Star beats and as a sub-editor before becoming entertainment editor. In the summer of 2001, Kenna became the Star's South Asia bureau chief. After the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S., Kenna went to Afghanistan to report on the war.

Kenna was a passenger in a car on March 4, 2002 when a grenade was tossed inside. She almost died in the attack and was left with lasting injuries. Kenna was travelling with two colleagues, her husband Hadi Dadashian and Toronto Star photographer Bernard Weil

After she left hospital, Kenna was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.[2] She delivered the September 23, 2004 Sproul lecture, entitled: "Heroism in the Desert: a Canadian journalist and her American rescuers in Afghanistan.[1]" She left the Star and stayed in Berkeley to study for a new career, helping people who have suffered severe and traumatic wounds deal psychologically with their injuries.

On January 16, 2006 Abdul Zahir was charged by a Guantanamo military commission for allegedly playing a role in the attack on Kenna.[3][4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Man charged in grenade attack: Star’s reporter hurt in 2002 blast in Afghanistan, Toronto Star, January 21, 2006
  2. ^ Sproul Research Fellowship
  3. ^ USA v. Abdul Zahir. US Department of Defense (January 2006).
  4. ^ Summarized transcripts (.pdf), from Abdul Zahir's Combatant Status Review Tribunal pages 1-8
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