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| Afghanistan | |
| Afghan Insurgents Burn Down Girls School | |
| 2003-09-28 | |
Suspected Islamic insurgents burned down a school for girls in eastern Afghanistan because they oppose education for women, a government official said Sunday. No injuries were reported. The single-story Shaga Primary School was left in ruins after the arson attack late Saturday in the Dara-e-Noor district of Nangarhar province, information ministry official Zubair Khaksar said in a telephone interview from the province's capital of Jalalabad. The attackers tied up the school's guard and set the building on fire before fleeing, Khaksar said. "This is the work of the Taliban," he said. "Nobody else burns schools."
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 Boy Those Tali's sure are TOUGH! Burning down a girls school..... Whats next? A pre-school? How long will it take them to muster up the courage to face 5 year olds? |
| Posted by: GregJ 2003-9-28 10:01:05 PM |
| #3 "The attackers tied up the school's guard and set the building on fire" -shouldn't the guard have been armed? Seems to me to guard anything over there that would've been a pre-requisite. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-9-28 1:06:01 PM |
| #2 Easier to keep 'em barefoot and pregnant if they don't have any education. |
| Posted by: Cheddarhead 2003-9-28 12:49:20 PM |
| #1 And only the Taliban have perfected how to burn adobe and stone buildings. Investigator: "What did they look like?" Guard: "The usual, sir, long beards and dresses, er, thobes." |
| Posted by: .com 2003-9-28 12:27:52 PM |