Afghanistan Elementary School Set on Fire

[DuctapeFatwa]

Suspected Taliban set fire to an elementary school south of Kabul, scattering leaflets saying girls should not be allowed in the classroom, an official said Wednesday. The blaze late Tuesday destroyed two rooms and two tents at the coed Moghul Khil school, said Amir Jhan, military spokesman for the region.

No one was arrested but Amir blamed supporters of the hardline Islamic militia, which ruled Afghanistan until it was ousted by U.S.-led troops in 2001.

Despite the threat, classes resumed Wednesday in three undamaged rooms. Amir said about 200 of the school's 400 boys and girls showed up for class.

"The teachers are obliged to continue because they are poor. They have no choice but to work," he said.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030903_892.html

[snooper2]

1. This is the shit that really pisses me off..

Chimpy using scare tactics to run the world and extremists in the House of Saud, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc., keeping the young dumb but and showing them how to load an AK47.

Meanwhile, we bomb Iraq to the ground where the people are more educated than the rest of the region.

sheesh...

[WillyT]

2. Ahhhhh... I Love The Fresh Smell Of Democracy In The Morning !!!

Our 'nation building' track record is just so.....

:argh:

[IndianaGreen]

3. Women are still wearing the burqa in Kabul

God knows what is happening to women elsewhere in the country.

American intervention did not change anything!

[denverbill]

4. American intervention didn't change anything?? Sure it did.

The new govt approved the oil pipeline, thousands of Afghanis are now dead, and the country is in even worse shape than before.

[proud patriot]

5. American intervention did not change anything! Sure it did

They had a bumper poppy crop this year . All the Heroin
dealer the world over are thankful .

[DuctapeFatwa]

6. If you are familiar with the history of the area

you know that all the stuff about women and burqas that make such good TV did not begin with the Taliban.

These are pre-Islamic tribal customs that have been practiced for millennia in what is now called Afghanistan and parts of rural Pakistan and Iran.

When have you ever seen Mrs. Karzai, hmmm?

If the West was so concerned about the plight of women in this part of the world, it did a remarkable job of containing its distress up until the day the Taliban refused Enron's terms.