Kathleen Kenna

[4] She began her career at the Toronto Star in 1981[3] and worked reporting primarily on Canadian political affairs.

While traveling with her husband Hadi Dadashian, Toronto Star photographer Bernard Weil, and an Afghan driver on the road from Kubul to Gardez,[3] a grenade thrown into the car exploded underneath Kenna's seat, seriously injuring her.

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

She delivered the September 23, 2004 Sproul lecture, entitled: "Heroism in the Desert: a Canadian journalist and her American rescuers in Afghanistan.

"[9] After finishing the fellowship at Berkeley, Kenna studied at San Francisco State University between 2005 and 2008[citation needed] towards a masters qualification in rehabilitation counseling and became involved in helping people who have suffered severe and traumatic wounds deal psychologically with their injuries.

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.