More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months blamed on conservative radicals in the country's north, Afghan police and education officials said.
The attack occurred in Takhar province where police said radicals opposed to education of women and girls had used an unidentified toxic powder to contaminate the air in classrooms.
Scores of students were left unconscious.
Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), says the Taliban appears intent on closing schools ahead of a 2014 withdrawal by foreign combat troops.
"A part of their Al Farooq spring offensive operation is... to close schools. By poisoning girls they want to create fear. They try to make families not send their children to school," NDS spokesman Lutfullah Mashal said.
Let me explain what I feel the Taliban are doing. These attacks on these schools and schoolgirls is part of the process that the Taliban have decided to begin. You see, the Taliban have no doubt that once American and NATO troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan, they will be back in complete control of Afghanistan within six months. When they gain back control, they don't want to waste a year getting all of the civilians back in line as they were when the Taliban ruled - let's face it...in the interim, girls and women have found out that they have rights and happiness and that must not stand, in the eyes of the Taliban. So, the Taliban are prepping everyone for the takeover so that everyone in Afghanistan is basically scared shitless and when they do have the power, there will be no resistance, there will be no barricades to the assimmilation to slavery.
120 Afghan schoolgirls 'poisoned' in classroom attacks
More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months blamed on conservative radicals in the country's north, Afghan police and education officials said.
The attack occurred in Takhar province where police said radicals opposed to education of women and girls had used an unidentified toxic powder to contaminate the air in classrooms.
Scores of students were left unconscious.
Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), says the Taliban appears intent on closing schools ahead of a 2014 withdrawal by foreign combat troops.
"A part of their Al Farooq spring offensive operation is... to close schools. By poisoning girls they want to create fear. They try to make families not send their children to school," NDS spokesman Lutfullah Mashal said.
Afghanistan's ministry of education said last week 550 schools in 11 provinces where the Taliban has strong support had been closed down by insurgents.
Last month, 150 schoolgirls were poisoned in Takhar province after they drank contaminated water.
Since 2001 when the Taliban was toppled from power by United States-backed Afghan forces, females have returned to schools, especially in the capital Kabul.
They were previously banned from work and education.
But there are still periodic attacks against students, teachers and school buildings, usually in the more conservative south and east of the country, from where the Taliban insurgency draws most of its support.
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Thanks to a chicken shit president who has been the great appeaser worse than chamberlain, more than just these girls will die. Barry single handedly fixed it so there would be no victory over the taliban. He approved deals with drug lords why? ofh yeah I forgot because some braintrust in his administration said it would keep teh drug lords from entering the fight. Go figure the USA has the best fighting force in Afghanistan and Barry lost his balls. This blood is on him every last drop I hope America smartens up and throws this poser out of office
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