Anne Smedinghoff (September 18, 1987 – April 6, 2013) was an American diplomat who last worked for the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Already fluent in Spanish, she was gearing up to learn Arabic, first for a year in the U.S. and then in Cairo (Egypt), before a two-year assignment in Algeria.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said at a news conference in Turkey that Smedinghoff was "vivacious, smart" and "capable."
The 25-year-old Foreign Service Officer was killed in a car bomb blast in southern Afghanistan.
Working as a press officer for the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, she was helping Afghan journalists cover an event at a school where the local Provincial Reconstruction Team was to donate math and science books.