Headmaster beheaded, schools torched in Afghanistan

Source: IANS (India)

Suspected Taliban militants beheaded a headmaster and torched two schools in southern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.

Sakandar Shah Mohammadi, head of Al Berooni School in Qara Bagh district of Ghazni province was beheaded Saturday, the education ministry said in a statement.

On the same day, dozens of militants, riding on motorbikes, came to Zardalo area of the district and torched two elementary schools, Muhibullah Khepilwak, district governor, said. One of the schools was a girls' school and the other for boys.

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Saturday's attacks came two days after police in the neighbouring province of Uruzgan found 11 beheaded men in Khan Uruzgan district of the province. Although the provincial authorities blamed Taliban for the killings, officials in the interior ministry said they were still investigating.

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Oh, wait...

but ur point is taken

What?

Yes, you're right. When the North invaded and occupied them during the Civil War, it ended lynchings in the South.

You kind of just proved my point. Or else made a big non-equivalence. Or something.

Jeez...

Lynchings didn't even really get started until AFTER the war. and they continued for a long damn time.

Jeez!

Talk about completely missing the point!

The other poster's analogy was ridiculous. I was using facetiousness to point out its absurdity. I apologize for not using :sarcasm: but I thought it was deadly obvious within the context of the conversation.

Nine years, the longest U.S. war (really occupation), and it hasn't done a thing to stop beheadings. To use the example of lynchings in the South, which ended mostly AFTER DECADES through social change and some inter-governmental pressure, not by invasion and occupation by another country, is absurd.

strikes again.
A little faith, anyone?

on the Muslim calendar. They're not acting much differently than Europeans did in 1431 on their calendar.

Until they've had a belly full and do something to stop it, sending our boys there to die for them is not going to work. Someone needs to tell Karzai and his brother to shit or get off the pot. DON'T ASK-TELL. They're just stringing us along, getting as many American dollars as they can. They don't want Democracy Fuck'em. But we need to let them know if get attacked from there again the world will have a new parking lot and this time ALL of Afghanistan will be the enemy not just the Taliban, Al Qaeda or any other group condoned by their population.

Why are we helping them?

People tend to argue it has to be an other outside force that is making a country (or their kid) act in a bad way.

GW*BushCo had bin Laden in his sights and incompetently let him get away. Next step should have been a secret plot to get OBL when the time was right. But no, Bushco had to start war in Afghanistan, then move on to war in Iraq. Quagmire after quagmire.

And yet, no prosecutions of BushCo for anything. :wtf:

Coz fixing it at this juncture isn't our problem.

Sure sounds like the Afghan plan is going in reverse...we've seem to had lost the support of the people.

and have no war machine. Because, according to IANS (kazakhstannews), just days befoe Gen McChrystal resigned, he was quoted as saying that the Afghan insurgency was growing:

"McChrystal said corruption and security remained serious issues as foreign forces were forced to battle a "growing insurgency"."

After 9 years, the insurgency is growing? Even after top Al Qaeda operatives have been repeatedly rubbed out. Even after scores of Hellfire missiles from unmanned drones have blown the Taleban to small bits of flesh and bone...the insurgency is growing?
Makes me wonder: what benefit is there to continually demonize an enemy that won't go away? Is it to fan the flames of war?

Taleban = bad. I get it.
Maybe it's time to move on, and MOVE OUT of Afghanistan.

Think of AP, that's the idea.

In this case, IANS cribbed from Deutsche Presse Agentur.

Saudis are the real evil fucks!

The USA should have supported the Marxist government instead of using the precursor to the Taliban to overthrow it.

FRAK Karzai!

Or hell, any better?

as RAWA has pointed out repeatedly.

Ghazni Province, where the lithium deposits are reported to be, is a dangerous place, home to many Taliban.
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