Taleban shoot teacher in Afghanistan (continued to teach despite threats)

http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=547208

A teacher has been shot dead in southern Afghanistan by suspected Taleban guerrillas after he ignored their orders to stop teaching girls.

The attack was carried out by two armed men who arrived at the secondary school in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province by motorcycle, Helmand police chief Abdul Rahman Sabir said.

"They dragged the teacher from the classroom and shot him at the school gate," he said.

"He had received many warning letters from the Taleban to stop teaching, but he continued to to do so happily and honestly - he liked to teach boys and girls," Sabir said. He identified the teacher by the single name, Laghmani.

Thanks to Bush?

that Laura went there too last year and she said everything was fine and dandy and happy and than a woman got raped by a group of men a week later.

so you prefer that the taliban return to power?....your upset because bush (with some help) got rid of the taliban?....or are you upset that afganistan isnt the perfect society?....what exactly is the problem here?

"your upset because bush (with some help) got rid of the taliban?"

If he got rid of them, then who the hell was it that shot that teacher?

They are far from gone.
Another recent article said that despite us being over there for 4 years, only 10% of the girls in the country actually go to school...guess Laura didn't go hang out with the 90% that still are hidden away in their homes.

"Ms. Diane Tebelius, Republican congressional candidate and observer in the Afghan elections sponsored by the International Republican Institute, is perhaps the first election observer in Afghanistan who wasted no time to communicate her impression in The Seattle Times of October 4, 2005.

A few days ago Ms. Tebelius returned to the United States from Kabul, I am writing these notes as a response to her dreadful article from inside my trampled country. As a member of RAWA, I had to be in several provinces to meet as many people as possible regarding the elections. Tebelius can enjoy the luxury of sitting in her house and so easily call the disgusting mockery of an election ?the miracle of Afghanistan?, while I am crying from among the people in the hell of the Taliban and Northern Alliance (NA) terrorists and their ?westernized? accomplices. Tebelius and other election observers with their bullet-proofs and body guards were in the hands of the American soldiers and Afghan agents. She might have been told about ?swift spreading democracy?, ?prosperity?, ?complete security? and other ?miracles? in our land of warlords and payees of foreign powers. On the other hand since she was selected by the U.S. government that brought Karzai and the Northern Alliance to the scene, it comes as no surprise she is not calling a spade a spade.

One of her miraculous statements is: ?The Afghan people see Americans as liberators.?

A distorted proclamation! As we have repeatedly asserted and shown, all of the fundamentalist bands including Taliban were created, funded, and trained by the CIA turning a blind eye to the higher interest of the Afghan people and to the consequence of such sinister support to the fate of freedom and democracy in our country. Thus, the US war on the Taliban is nothing but a family fracas between the father and his rogue children. The US started the fracas by not replacing religious tyranny with democracy, by not relying on the people, but rather by siding with the NA, the very worst enemies of our people. It goes without saying that Afghans will not see as their ?liberators? those who drove the Taliban wolves through one door and unchained the rabid dogs of the NA through another. How a nation ?sees as liberators? those who have blown to shred not the terrorists but thousands of innocents? How can simple Afghans ?see Americans as liberators? while the ?liberators? are going to woo their men in the government and in the parliament to approve the establishment of the US bases on our soil for decades, which obviously goes contrary to the independence of the country? Our people say that if Americans were their liberators, they should have not allowed about 200 criminals and arch enemies of democracy to pave their way to the parliament and provincial council. After four years the people see that the ?liberators'? promises for them were all lies. And bear it in mind, Ms. Tebelius, that our ruined people have no doubt that those with the disgraceful stories of Abu Ghraib cannot be their ?liberators?. Do we need to recite abuses of the ?liberators? in Afghanistan?"

(...)

http://www.rawa.org/seattletimes.htm

(RAWA is the 'Revolutionary Association of the Women of Aghanistan')

From those without an American political agenda. Thanks.

...and those students will remember it. Those girls will always remember that he died doing what is right, in spite of vicious, frothing fundamentalist hatred.

Let's hope those backward-thinking Taliban zealots never regain control of that or any other country.

he stupidly believed the BFEE propoganda that we would make everything better and he could do what he wanted to and ignore the guys with all the guns.

Hopefully the little girls will grow up to have more sense. They can have all the freedom that they can defend, by themselves, with an AK-47 and RPG's. No more.