Taliban suspected of poisoning female Afghan students

[LaLiLuLeLohan]

(CNN) -- Afghan authorities will investigate the sudden illness of students and staff at three schools in the past week in northern Afghanistan, the Afghan Human Independent Rights Commission said on Sunday. Local doctors suggested the Taliban may be the perpetrators of possible poison attacks.
"During the last seven days three cases of poisoning [have] occurred in Kunduz Province," said Syed Karim Talash, the director of the commission office in the province.
At least 88 girls and teachers became ill in separate cases at three girls' schools.
The cause of the illnesses was not known, but Talash said poison gas was suspected.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/25/afghanistan.school.illness/index.html?iref=allsearch

and the plot thickens..

Taliban condemns poison gas attack on schoolgirls in Kunduz

Officials were swift to blame the Taliban, which banned girls from an education when it ruled Afghanistan. and which has more recently been linked with acid attacks on female pupils. But the militants denied responsibility. Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said: "We strongly condemn such an act that targeted innocent schoolgirls by poisonous gas."

Some rights advocates suspect that opposition to female education is no longer the exclusive preserve of the Taliban. Instead, they claim that Islamists unaligned with the insurgency may sometimes be responsible.

A million girls attend school in Afghanistan – an unprecedented number but a sixth of the number of boys.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-attack-on-schoolgirls-in-kunduz-1954226.html

 

[~~whimsy~~]

I discredit this whole article on claims of racism towards towel heads... err, I mean, Muslims.

 

[Hot Mega]

I can see the suggestion that unaligned antagonists could be the blame.

I recall seeing something on the Afghanistan Idol or Star or whatever...in which some opinions of the female contestant were that she deserved to be killed for dancing.

And some of the men saying that weren't dressed in rags or turbans.

 

[roronoa3000]

This is by far like the...um...the...10th worst thing they've ever done.

 

[grower_boy]

I hate these fuckers. I will never forget what they did to my country on September 11, 2001.

 

[LaLiLuLeLohan]

I hate these fuckers. I will never forget what they did to my country on September 11, 2001.

Well, the Taliban didn't do anything to our country on 9-11. "All" the Taliban did was refuse to surrender Al Qaeda ops to America after Bin Laden swore to Mullah Omar that he and AQ had no involvement with 9-11.

If that justifies the invasion and dismantling of the Taliban, that's up to you. But to keep things clear, Omar and the Taliban never knocked a single US building down and never planned to. The Bush administration and the Pentagon admit that.

What's scary to me is that this schoolgirl gassing could be Taliban activity...or it could be Hizb-e-Islami...or it could just be regular Islamist civilians who aren't even in the conflict. Grown men have been throwing acid on little girls to keep young women from going to school. I can't imagine what gives some people the idea that Afghanistan can be "won" in any sense of the word.

 

[pornophile]

Jeez Louise, girls going to school ticks them off that bad? I wonder what would happen if an Afghan woman one day became a hardcore pornstar. And she did anal with American men with big white penises and then let them jizz all over her exposed face. Yea, take that taliban.