75 real people for 72 imaginary virgins?ÂÂ
Afghanistan’s deadliest suicide attack since the Taliban regime’s ouster killed 59 schoolchildren, while 96 other students were wounded in the blast, the Education Ministry spokesman said Friday.
The attack in the northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday killed at least 75 people. The dead children were ages eight to 18, said Zahoor Afghan, an Education Ministry spokesman.
Five teachers were also among those killed in the attack, the worst in the country since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban militant movement from power. Six lawmakers also died.
Well done.
It’s stuff like this that makes me glad that there really is a maker that these murderer’s will have to stand before and explain just how they could be so evil. I wouldn’t expect that to be a pleasant conversation.
These guys really know how to market themselves and their cause.. Nothing makes me long for the Global Caliphate like tales of the brave Islamic warriors and martyrs of Afghanistan, Iraq and Beslan demonstrating their superior martial skills and religious piety by attacking children…
Not…
Is it too late to join the Knights Templar?
Well, don’t forget this when you get told that we’ve lost the moral highground to KSM.
Senator Dodd said something? If an idiot screams in a debate, and nobody pays attention, does it make a sound?
Am I the only one who thinks “Senator Dodd” sounds errily like “hemorrhoid?”
Or is it just me?
You can tell me.
Sounds like? How about looks like? I see he finally got his eyebrows trimmed. His eyebrows were so long he could have had one of those hippie braids in each one.
I just noticed how I spelled “eerily” before. I wondered why I suddenly started getting voicemails from Dr. Freud.
2001 U.S.-led invasion?
Funny. At the time, it seemed a lot more like a US-supported uprising by the Northern Alliance and other anti-Taliban native forces, with US airstrikes, not ground troops.
US ground troops didn’t enter until the attack on Kandahar*, the Taliban’s last stronghold.
Given that the Taliban were reduced to one city (and their Tora Bora fortress and the like), it’s not so much an “invasion of Afghanistan” as “supporting the new government that already [militarily] controlled most of the country”.
(* Interestingly, for some values of interesting, Wikipedia also calls it an “invasion” in 2001, then going on to detail how it wasn’t an invasion. This sort of laziness is ubiquitous, even among better news agencies than AP, but it’s still factually incorrect and deeply misleading, as the impression is of US troops storming in to take over the country, rather than existing anti-Taliban forces getting aid and support to free their own country.)
I wonder… the Afghani people have to be helping these scum, because they can’t move and attack in the country without local assistance, places to hide, refusal to help find them, moving supplies, etc. How do they justify that activity with this kind of thing? At what point do they go “I’m not sure Allah wants us to murder our own children, Achmed” and stop it?
Chris: (and, no, I’m not stalking you) The jihadist mindset in its most radicalized form (as represented by the barely literate Taliban) remains obscenely focused on divine goals to the exclusion of even the most basic human understandings. These guys make the most frothing Crusader in history look like a Code Pinko. Their singular lack of humanity, burned on the altar of religious purity-in-originalism, has very little precedent in history.
Except for maybe the Vietcong. And Stalin. I would be willing to bet that most of those helping the Taliban do so out of abject terror.
Sure, the really freaky extremist muslims are like that, but what about the rest of the public. They have to support, hide, equip and move these freaks around. In Iraq they finally came to the conclusion that while they aren’t all that fond of American invaders, they’re a damn sight better than the insane muslim radicals who kill them all. Surely Afghanistan can come to the same conclusion? I think that once they wrap up the hardest work in Iraq, Patraeus is going to have to head there next.
Sadly; last week’s Newsweek cover story on Pakistan, reveals major
elements of the US media; including
the two reporters, Moreau & Yousafsai; are perfectly willing to keep their Taliban interviewees at close range, out of the reach of the authorities.
Perhaps it’s a little like being suprised that the sun rises in the east, but it never ceases to amaze me that that the mainstream press and the left (but how I repeat myself…repeat myself) minimally and without outrage breeze over an intentional outrage like this while at the same time piling outrage upon outrage on any example of accitdental collateral damage by US forces.
I guess I’m just easily astounded…look! Something shiny!
Come on…just one of you lurking piece of shit lefty assholes come in here and try and justify ANY part of this evil act by these lower than life fuckheads. Just one of you. Please!!!! Show yourselves to be the cowards that you are…
Absolutely sick to my stomach. This shit is beyond even their depraved founder’s intentions. That is sub human behavior.