Taliban trick 8 year old girl into carrying a bomb.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/world/asia/27afghanistan.html

KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents tricked an 8-year-old girl in a remote area of central Afghanistan into carrying a bomb wrapped in a cloth and then detonated the bomb remotely when she was close to a police vehicle, the Afghan authorities said Sunday.

Only the girl was killed in the blast, which occurred in Uwshi Village of Charchino District, said Fazal Ahmad Shirzad, the police chief of Uruzguan Province.

Mr. Shirzad said he believed that the girl was completely unaware that the bag that she had been given by Taliban insurgents held a bomb. The girl’s body was later “taken to a nearby security check post and the police called her relatives, “ he said.

In Logar Province in southeastern Afghanistan, the death toll in the bombing that occurred Saturday at a hospital in a small town rose to 37 as people who were severely injured by the blast died, said Mohammed Zarif Naibkhail, the director of public health for the province. Another 53 people were injured.

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worthy of respite.

If the life of the girl is seen as having no value at all?

At parties financed by American dollars.

, or those that raped and killed an entire innocent family, and furthermore, not all Americans are like those; we need to recognize that not all Taliban are all like those in the article.

Shake a few of those down off the kite string...would ya?

these guys. Not everything is equal.

Unfortunately there are probably instances we don't know about or are covered up.

But it's not "official policy."

They just don't all go to the extent of sacrificing the lives of 8 year olds.

... or did you mean to say Afghans?

I knew some good Afghans and a ton of crap ones.

Reminds me of an bomber in our area who prematurely detonated en route to his target. Luckily he only splattered himself...

FUCK.

That does not justify our military presence there.

How many innocents will we kill with our drones & bombs in order to punish the Taliban?

(AFP) – 1 hour ago

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"A train transporting southern returnees from Kosti to Wau was attacked by a Misseriya militia this morning in the area of Meiram, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of Muglad," Hua Jiang, a spokeswoman for the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan, told AFP.

One person was killed and four wounded in the raid, Jiang said.

Meiram lies in north Sudan's embattled state of South Kordofan, just next to Darfur and the tense Abyei border region, while Muglad is the historical capital of the Misseriya tribe.

The heavily armed Arab nomads were a key proxy militia of Khartoum's army during its 1983-2005 conflict with the former southern rebel army, the SPLA.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hBb2VSl5EwoD2MEM5Jr9hVNhptjw?docId=CNG.c92f962cd2eadb85ecab8f1c1e49cd4b.3b1

The Untouchables. "Hey Mister! You forgot your bag". That was a sad scene, but of course it was fiction unlike this.

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