More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months blamed on the Taliban. All have been taken to hospital following the poison attack. Most have been treated and discharged but 30 – including three female teachers – are still being treated.
Reuters Police said preliminary evidence suggested that poisonous materials had been sprayed in classrooms at Bibi Haji school, in Takhar province. They believe that Taliban insurgents may be responsible. (May be? It’s ALWAYS the Taliban)
The attack occurred in Takhar province where police said that radicals opposed to education of women and girls had used an unidentified toxic powder to contaminate the air in classrooms. Scores of students were left unconscious.
The 125 victims, who include girls as young as 10, were taken to hospital on Wednesday after complaining of nausea, headaches and dizziness. Police spokesman Khalilullah Aseer said he believed Taliban insurgents were trying to spread fear by poisoning the schoolgirls.
Some officials have suggested that the suspected poisoning was made worse because of mass hysteria among school pupils in the aftermath of the attack. (That’s right, blame the girls for becoming hysterical at nearly being killed)
Afghan officials say the insurgents and other groups are behind a wave of similar attacks against schoolchildren in several provinces. In April, more than 100 schoolgirls from Takhar were taken to hospital after drinking water at their school that was suspected to be poisoned.
Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), says the Taliban appear intent on closing schools ahead of a 2014 withdrawal by foreign combat troops. ”A part of their Al Farooq spring offensive operation is … to close schools. By poisoning girls they want to create fear. They try to make families not send their children to school,” NDS spokesman Lutfullah Mashal said.
The education ministry said last week that 550 schools in the 11 provinces where the Taliban have strong support had been closed down by them.
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Lets see does BO not know that the Taliban hate us? Yeah he knows! Does BO not know that secrets are going to the Muslim Brotherhood? If he dosen’t he should be impeached! If he knows he should be impeached! either way he should be impeached.
BO speaks with the taliban to make peace and they kill our guys and they laugh together.
We ought to leave Afghanistan to itself, cordon off that area, and keep enough nukes pointed at it, Iran and Pakistan to ensure the place is UNINHABITABLE for decades after any need to launch a nuclear strike.
what have the muslim’s have against the girls getting a edcaution?
Muslims consider women on a level with a cow or goat. you wouldn’t want to educate your cow now would you? Muslims want women to be slaves. The less educated they are, the easier it is to control them.
An interesting corollary to that is, if ‘nation building’ could continue for about twenty years, so a cohort were educated from ages 5 – 25, to complete university, then those educated women would be harder to repress. I guess the same thing would have to be done for 40 or 60 years to ensure that the 70/80/90%? capable of grade 12 equivalent would achieve that throughout the total population, and the 10%? who would be capable of university would and could do so.
Further to that, that educated population would be a real challenge to Pakistan, what with their trillion dollar materials wealth, which they could then utilize to create a viable state.
That’s a lose-lose for Pakistan. Currently they use the Taliban as a cats-paw to bash NATO, to preserve their belligerent mohammedan image at home. At the same time, they pull the Taliban strings by ISI controlling the supply of intelligence and materiel, and by looking the other way as they cross a border which is real to NATO but non-existent to the Taliban.
Just reducing their own capability to breed more….
YAWN!!!
Next!
Without ideological warfare, there is no defeating the Taliban.
The LA police can’t even oppose Islam without CAIR telling them that ‘jihad means peace’.