Afghan girls maimed by acid vow to go to school

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updated 10:56 a.m. EST, Thu January 22, 2009
By Atia Abawi
CNN

... They weren't the only ones attacked that day. Several other teachers and students were targeted on their way to Meir Weis Mena School in Kandahar, the nation's third-largest city and one where the Taliban have long been influential ...

"A real man would never throw acid on the face of a little girl, a real man wouldn't even want to make a little girl unhappy," Afghan President Hamid Karzai said shortly after the attack. "Beside it being a cowardly act, it is an un-Islamic act" ...

One of the accused, Jalil, said in the video that a major in the ISI, or Pakistani intelligence unit, approached him and offered him the equivalent of $2,000 for each attack ...

When asked if she would stop attending school, Shamsia was quick with her response. "Why wouldn't I want to come to school? I want our country to persevere. I have to do something for my country, I must go to school."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/acid.attacks/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

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1. What brave little girls.

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2. Holy shit, they have guts. So awesome. nt

[Lint Head]

3. Humanity does have heroes and heroines.

I hope these girls are interviewed. I would like to hear them.

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4. They are so incredibly brave... these are amazing kids.