Officials: Schoolgirls, teachers sick from poison gas

[Thomas]

Officials: Schoolgirls, teachers sick from poison gas
August 25th, 2010
10:04 AM ET
http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/25/officials-schoolgirls-teachers-sick-from-poison-gas/?hpt=T2

Dozens of schoolgirls and teachers were sickened Wednesday by poison gas in Afghanistan, medical and government officials said.

The latest incident, this one at a high school, is the ninth such case involving the poisoning of schoolgirls, said Asif Nang, spokesman for the nation's education ministry.

Dr. Kabir Amiri said 59 students and 14 teachers were brought to the hospital, and were faring better.

"We don't have good equipment to verify the kind of gas that they were poisoned with, but we have taken their blood tests to send to Turkmenistan for verifying the type of gas" that was used, Amiri said.

Many Afghan girls were not allowed to attend school during the Taliban's rule from 1996 to 2001. Girls' schools began reopening after the Islamist regime was toppled. The United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, estimates that 2 million Afghan girls attend school these days.

But female educational facilities, students and teachers have come under vicious attack as the insurgency has strengthened and spread from Taliban strongholds in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand.

A report compiled last year by the humanitarian agency CARE documented 670 education-related attacks in 2008, including murder and arson. Much of the violence in what CARE called an "alarming trend" occurred at girls' schools.

 

[Ahmad]

The taliban never mis a chance to push Afghanistan to a point of no return. The taliban are very clever people, they well know that education is the key to success and survival, if they take education from us, then afghanistan will be gone forever and their mission accomplished.

 

[Ahmad]

by the way, this school is only 20mins away by walk from my house.

 

[Ahmad]

There have been many attacks on the schools by the Taliban, look at only a few of them:

2009 Five girls briefly slipped into comas and nearly 100 other pupils needed treatment after an alleged gas attack on their school. The victims were vomiting and dizzy, and some lost consciousness. Taliban sympathisers hostile to girls' education were blamed.

2008 In Logar province a primary school was targeted by arsonists intent on preventing local girls being taught. The suspected Taliban raiders were thwarted by a gang of fathers who chased them away.

February 2006 Armed gunmen walked through the school gates of Kartilaya school in Lashkar Gar and killed several pupils. The school consisted of mostly female students.

January 2006 A male teacher was dragged into the courtyard of a co-educational school and beheaded by suspected Taliban militants in Zabul province. The school had received threats for continuing to teach girls. 2002 Taliban sympathisers fired rockets at several schools in the Wardak province, near Kabul, as part of a sustained effort to stop parents from sending their daughters to study. They also raided a school at a village mosque, setting fire to chairs and blackboard.

 

[Cityboy]

Oh. From when taliban having biological weapon like poison Gas?

 

[AstanoshKhan]

Oh. From when taliban having biological weapon like poison Gas?

Probably Saddam Hussain exported all of them to Afghanistan before the Iraq invasion.

 

[Ahmad]

i think it wont be a difficult job to find poinsons. they dont make it, they simply buy it.

 

[abbasniazi]

A NEW STUNT, WMDs OF MULLAHS, NECONS, ZIONISTS COUPLED WITH OUR ADVERSARIES ARE MAKING A NEW STORY FOR THE DUMB WORLD, IN THE COMING DAYS THEY'LL PROPAGATE IT, LETS SEE WHETHER THE DUMB WORLD BUYS IT OR NOT, THOUGH THE DUMB WORLD IS NEVER GIVEN ANY OPTION "NOT TO BUY SUCH A STORY"

BY THE WAY EVERYONE KNOWS INDIA HAS A VIBRANT BIOLOGICAL INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR SUCH STUFF.

MU 2 CENTS, BUT U,VE THE OPTION "NOT TO BUY IT"

 

[GentlemanObserver]

Oh. From when taliban having biological weapon like poison Gas?

Easier to make a chemical weapon then you would think!

 

[Ahmad]

A NEW STUNT, WMDs OF MULLAHS, NECONS, ZIONISTS COUPLED WITH OUR ADVERSARIES ARE MAKING A NEW STORY FOR THE DUMB WORLD, IN THE COMING DAYS THEY'LL PROPAGATE IT, LETS SEE WHETHER THE DUMB WORLD BUYS IT OR NOT, THOUGH THE DUMB WORLD IS NEVER GIVEN ANY OPTION "NOT TO BUY SUCH A STORY"

BY THE WAY EVERYONE KNOWS INDIA HAS A VIBRANT BIOLOGICAL INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR SUCH STUFF.

MU 2 CENTS, BUT U,VE THE OPTION "NOT TO BUY IT"

If the attack was on a pakistani school you would have believed it, now it is in afghansitan ,you and your conspiracy theory machinery start to work again.

 

[GentlemanObserver]

If the attack was on a pakistani school you would have believed it, now it is in afghansitan ,you and your conspiracy theory machinery start to work again.

It's okay Ahmad, absass is clearly in Denial mode.

 

[Patriot]

**** Taliban.Honestly i hope American tests some dirty bombs on these animals.In fact i am sorry for comparing them to animals.Animals are far better then talibans.

 

[Ahmad]

Watch this video from BBC persian site, i cant see the video properly and not sure if is offering english translation. As per text, you can use google translator to translate it into english, it is mostly the accounts of students regarding this attack:

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[Ahmad]

It's okay Ahmad, absass is clearly in Denial mode.

Yes my friend. And it is difficult for the others to feel and realize our pain unless they have the same pain as we have. but honeslty i do not wish my pain to any other human being even if he/she is our enemy. But at least they can seriosely and without bias can listen to see what people are going through.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Another cowardly attack by the Taliban on innocent Afghanis civilians. So much for their claim that they've got the support of the Afghanis people!