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CNN:
Schoolgirls and teachers sick from poison gas in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Dozens of schoolgirls and teachers were sickened Wednesday by poison gas in Afghanistan, medical and government officials said.
The latest incident, this one at a high school, is the ninth such case involving the poisoning of schoolgirls, said Asif Nang, spokesman for the nation's education ministry.
Dr. Kabir Amiri said 59 students and 14 teachers were brought to the hospital, and were faring better.
"We don't have good equipment to verify the kind of gas that they were poisoned with, but we have taken their blood tests to send to Turkmenistan for verifying the type of gas" that was used, Amiri said.
Many Afghan girls were not allowed to attend school during the Taliban's rule from 1996 to 2001. Girls' schools began reopening after the Islamist regime was toppled. The United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, estimates that 2 million Afghan girls attend school these days.
But female educational facilities, students and teachers have come under vicious attack as the insurgency has strengthened and spread from Taliban strongholds in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand.
A report compiled last year by the humanitarian agency CARE documented 670 education-related attacks in 2008, including murder and arson. Much of the violence in what CARE called an "alarming trend" occurred at girls' schools.
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Green Energy
CNN:
Schoolgirls and teachers sick from poison gas in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Dozens of schoolgirls and teachers were sickened Wednesday by poison gas in Afghanistan, medical and government officials said.
The latest incident, this one at a high school, is the ninth such case involving the poisoning of schoolgirls, said Asif Nang, spokesman for the nation's education ministry.
Dr. Kabir Amiri said 59 students and 14 teachers were brought to the hospital, and were faring better.
"We don't have good equipment to verify the kind of gas that they were poisoned with, but we have taken their blood tests to send to Turkmenistan for verifying the type of gas" that was used, Amiri said.
Many Afghan girls were not allowed to attend school during the Taliban's rule from 1996 to 2001. Girls' schools began reopening after the Islamist regime was toppled. The United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, estimates that 2 million Afghan girls attend school these days.
But female educational facilities, students and teachers have come under vicious attack as the insurgency has strengthened and spread from Taliban strongholds in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand.
A report compiled last year by the humanitarian agency CARE documented 670 education-related attacks in 2008, including murder and arson. Much of the violence in what CARE called an "alarming trend" occurred at girls' schools.
- Reminded Of Apocalypse Now…the Horror ..afghan Schoolgirls Poisoned In Anti-education Attack
The Taliban, no matter what you hear from them about what Islam is or is not, is the ENEMY of every day of mankind’s development out of a tidal pool of ooze.They are the beast beneath every child’s bed.They are the Viet Cong ON CRACK, hacking off...
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59 Afghan girls ill after suspected poisoning From Watcher: Because girls' education is haram in the Islamic paradise of Afghanistan. (CNN) -- Poisoning at a girls school in Afghanistan's Ghazni province affected 59 students, local officials...
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Sonsabitches! Following on the news of the 1,000 death in Afghanistan can we please drop this goddam Courageous Restraint bullshit and start killing the motherfuckers as only we can??? Gateway Pundit (h/t In Mary's Image): Breaking: Taliban Using...
- Afghan Girls Defy Islamic Subjugation
We can only hope they will grow up to be proud apostates! Or at least Islamic apatheists. But for now, they are defying the Taliban, and that takes some courage. Below is the story from the New York Times. I'd like to thank the inimitable Damien for...
- Anti-education Killings
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