'Terrorists' poisoned schoolgirls (in Afghanistan)

BBC ^ | May 2, 2004 | BBC

[FairOpinion]

The Afghan president has blamed "terrorist elements" for the poisoning of three schoolgirls in the eastern province of Khost. Hamid Karzai said they were poisoned by people opposed to girls attending school, and described the perpetrators as inhuman.

"I will not call anyone an Afghan or a Muslim who poisons an eight-year-old... because she is school-going," he added.

He said the girls were in critical condition.

However, a local official told AP news agency that they had recovered.

The official said the incident happened five or six days ago outside the city of Khost's only girls' school.

"A woman gave poisoned fruit powder to the girls and told them to mix it with water and drink it," he said.

"After a couple of minutes, they were unconscious."

Reports say a woman has been arrested in connection with the attack.

Correspondents say extremists have mounted arson attacks on girls' schools in the past, but direct attacks on students are rare.

[FairOpinion]

These are the kinds of terrorists we are dealing with -- male and female.

[Space Wrangler]

You said it. This is what we are dealing with, and anything we have to do to rid the world of this mindset is fine by me.

[FairOpinion]

From another article regarding this:

"Karzai's government has reversed Taliban-era rules that barred girls and women from education and work, and embarked on an ambitious plan to rebuild the country's schools and universities.

More than four (m) million students have enrolled in schools this year -- more than ever before -- including one-third of the country's girls."

http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=1832139

Now that we freed Afghanistan children, including girls, can study and the terrorist elements are willing to kill children to prevent it.

[jocon307]

Didn't their mothers tell them 'don't take candy from strangers'?

[The_Media_never_lie]

Where is the outrage? It is over the U.S. female soldier pointing at the masturbating prisoner, not over this!

[FairOpinion]

Exactly.

If the US looks at a terrorist disapprovingly, the sky is falling, but when terrorists are murdering even young children, of their own race and religion, the media is silent.

I personally can't work up a great deal of sympathy for the terrorists.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I will not call anyone an Afghan or a Muslim who poisons an eight-year-old...

I would not call such a person human, but from what I've seen, such a person can definitely qualify as a Muslim, and find many like-minded Muslims to approve of his/her acts.

[ryanjb2]

If poisioning 8 year old girls isn't enough for the BBC to remove the quotes from the word terrorist, then I don't know what is.

[JoeSixPack1]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1128410/posts?

[2banana]

When I was in Afghanistan (near Orgun-e), terrorists planted a large bomb on a baseball field that the Americans were using to teach Afghan kids the sport. Lucky for all, it rained that day (when it rarely rains) and went the bomb went off, nobody was there to get hurt.

I have never read about this incident in any paper but this is the mindset of the people we are up against...

[OXENinFLA]

PURE EVIL.



Ping..................

[Mo1]

PURE EVIL.

The whackos from the left like Michael Moore call them freedom fighters

I'm with you .. they are Pure Evil

[Travis McGee]

We're going to find out, sooner or later,

If Abdul will pray, to a glowing crater.