Posted on 09/28/2008 6:10:39 PM PDT by BlackVeil
KABUL: In an attack claimed by the Taliban, two gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed Afghanistan's most high-profile female police officer on Sunday as she prepared to leave for work in the southern city of Kandahar. The police in the city said she died instantly from gunshot wounds to her head. Her 18-year-old son, driving her car, was seriously wounded and taken to the hospital. The police officer, Malalai Kakar, who was in her mid-forties with six children, was an iconic figure among women's groups in Afghanistan and abroad. Often profiled in the Afghan and foreign news media, she was one of the leading totems for the wider freedoms gained by women when the Taliban, with their repressive policies toward women, were ousted from power by an American-led coalition in 2001. The attack was the latest in a wave of attacks on women across Afghanistan for which the Taliban have claimed responsibility. After scattering in the wake of the 2001 offensive, the Islamic militants have regrouped over the past two years, mounting a new offensive across wide areas of eastern and southern Afghanistan. Attacks on women, girls' schools and organizations working for women's advancement have become increasingly common. "We killed Malalai Kakar," a Taliban spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi, told Agence France-Presse in a telephone call. "She was our target, and we successfully eliminated our target." Kakar, with the rank of captain, was head of Kandahar's department of crimes against women, heading about 10 female officers, and spent her working life tackling theft, domestic violence and murders. She joined the police in the city in 1982, following in the footsteps of her father and brothers, but was forced out after the Taliban captured Kandahar in the mid-1990s ...
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Let me tell these Taliban bastards what they don’t know.
She beat you years ago.
NOW press release any minute amirite?
Well, now it is up to the young women of Afghanistan to follow her example, surely they are up to it, now will they be allowed to do so?
yeah muslims are real men picking on women
It takes a real man to shoot a woman or rape a child. (Sarc)
One Islamic group is proud to have killed her while another Islamic group states it’s un Islamic? Okay Got it. This whole war on terror is never ending. I hope either Afghanistan jails them in a place so stinking bad they’d pray fruitlessly to allah for a weekend at Gitmo and rot, or they die the way she was killed, islamic vengeance in Ramadan.
Taliban spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi”...kill him. Kill him now.
Yeah...I said it.
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