Gunmen Kill Afghan Official Who Backed Women’s Rights

[DuaneBidoux]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 25 — A senior Afghan official specializing in women’s rights was gunned down here on her way to work on Monday morning by suspected Taliban gunmen. It was the highest-level assassination of a woman in Afghanistan in the five years since the Taliban were ousted from power.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/world/asia/26afghan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>

Because we took our eye off the ball and didn't put enough resources into Afghanistan things are rolling backwards.

[saigon68]

1. FREEDOM AND (equality) are on the March

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[marmar]

2. If this is Bush's version of spreading Democracy....

how much longer before they re-introduce the guillotine? :scared:

[Moderator]

3. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2528839