Fears of mass poisoning of Afghan schoolgirls

[SpartanDem]

Source: MSNBC

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan - Doctors are investigating whether dozens of girls were poisoned at a high school in northern Afghanistan on Monday after 61 girls went to the hospital because of sudden illness, officials said.

Dr. Khalil Farhagga said the 61 students and one teacher from a school in Parwan — one province north of Kabul — complained of irritability, tearing and confusion. Several girls also passed out.

The mass hospitalization comes about two weeks after a similar incident in Parwan, where dozens of girls were hospitalized in late April after being sickened by what Afghan officials said were strong fumes or a possible poison gas cloud.



Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30681708/

[applegrove]

1. Monsters.

[LeftHander]

2. Taco Bell and Burger King awarded school lunch contracts....nt

[Tempest]

3. More likely Halliburton

They're not content with just poisoning and electrocuting U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

[gtar100]

4. Nothing scarier to the fundamentalist than an intelligent woman.

Mindless Taliban followers deluded by their fundamentalist view of religion are a danger to all people. Suppress women and keep the men babbling stupidity. What an awful testament to the brutality and idiocy of mankind. May there be true justice for the women of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They have been so abused in that part of the world. So sad.

[BlueIris]

5. Poor kids. nt

[ohio2007]

6. girls not allowed to attend school under the 1996-2001 Taliban regime.

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The Taliban and other conservative extremist groups in Afghanistan oppose education for girls, who were not allowed to attend school under the 1996-2001 Taliban regime.
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..militants in the south have previously assaulted schoolgirls by spraying acid in their faces and burned down schools as a protest against the government. Scores of Afghan schools have been forced to close because of violence.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090511/D9844F3O1.html

And yet people posting on these forums wish Barack will not go after them ?
Cuz it's all about "oil pipelines" and CIA poppy fields ? :shrug: