Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Meanwhile, in the last Dodge City supposedly cleaned up by Sheriff Bush....

Last fall, schools for girls in Wardak province, near Kabul, were attacked. In the past two months in Kandahar province, a former Taliban stronghold, seven schools were attacked and burned, including the one in Sheik Mohammadi, about 6 miles south of Kandahar. The schools have been accused of teaching Western thought and relying on Western money.

Such incidents are part of an increasing number of attacks in southern Afghanistan not only on Westerners but also on Afghans. The attackers are masked men with causes reminiscent of the Taliban....


--Baltimore Sun; link via Cursor

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