Afghan girls hit again by suspected gas attack

[Robb]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Dozens of schoolgirls in Afghanistan were admitted to hospital on Tuesday after two suspected poisonous gas attacks on schools, officials said, the latest in a spate of similar incidents.

Thirty schoolgirls in the northern city of Kunduz and six in Kabul were admitted to hospital, health officials and the interior ministry said.

"Others are also coming in. We don't know the exact number of girls affected, it could be many. It's a similar incident to what happened in Kabul and Kunduz last week," said Homayun Khamosh, head of the Kunduz city hospital where girls were admitted.

One of the girls taken ill in Kunduz said she saw a man in black clothes, with his mouth and nose wrapped in a cloth, throw a bottle near the school. The bottle appeared to release a smelly fume, the girl who said her name was Farzana told Reuters.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64A1A720100511

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Angry to report this is not a dupe. :grr:

[Soylent Brice]

1. very sad and sickening. n/t

[Myrina]

2. Blackwater Special Ops?

... they're certainly not above trying to drum up a reason for more US Military spending ... :mad:

[OKNancy]

3. Good grief. of all the dumb posts I've read in my many years here

this has to be near the top. You know sometimes there are actual assholes in this world. People in the name of religion who abuse and want to keep women "in their place". No black ops are needed for these things. They do it on their own.

I know there is a strong sentiment to get out of Afghanistan, but by god, we better not abandon those women and girls.
Sometimes I wonder if people really even care.

How can people be so heartless?
How can people be so cruel?
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold
How can people have no feelings?
You know I’m hung up on you
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no
Especially people
Who care about strangers
Who care about evil
And social injustice
Do you only care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

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[superconnected]

5. +1

good post.

Men don't typically care about matters that don't affect them. If it were men that were being persecuted for being men, and women were the perps, they'd be on it.

[hugo_from_TN]

6. Thanks for that broad brush attack.

[superconnected]

7. Because the whole real meaning of this thread for you is men being under attack.