Taliban Accused of Using Poison Gas On Afghan Girls' Schools

I guess when something keeps happening, it gets pretty hard to deny it, right? Well, for the third time, an Afghan girls school has been hit by a severe case of poisoning and it appears that this is another case of a Taliban attack - an attack using poisonous gas and the victims are innocent little school girls. Here's some of the details from the article over at the Toronto Star:

Officials accused extremists of launching a poison gas attack yesterday that caused dozens of schoolgirls to collapse with headaches and nausea as they waited in line for a Qur'an reading at their school in northeastern Afghanistan.

Students were gathering in the yard of Aftab Bachi school in Muhmud Raqi for a morning reading of the Qur'an when a strange odour filled the area. First one girl collapsed, then others, said the school's principal, Mossena, who fought for breath as she described the event from her hospital bed.
"I saw several students fall on the ground," said Mossena, who like many Afghans goes by one name.
Teachers told the rest of the students to go home. Mossena said she did not know what happened next because she collapsed and woke up in the main hospital in Muhmud Raqi, the capital of Kapisa province, which lies just northeast of Kabul.
At least 98 people were admitted to hospital, including 84 students, 12 teachers and two cleaners, said Khalid Enayat, the hospital's deputy director. He said they were monitoring another 30 students to see if they developed symptoms.
Yesterday's incident is the third alleged poisoning at a girls' school in about two weeks.

Now my take on this is two fold - first of all, this is nothing new for the Taliban to attack girls schools - they have done this both in Afghanistan and in Pakistan while usually they burn the schools down. It's a simple fact that the Taliban do NOT want girls getting ANY kind of education in their midst. Secondly, one has to wonder if this isn't some sort of testing ground for the Taliban's use of some new bio and hazardous weapons. They obviously treat young girls in their society as no better than test subjects or lab animals anyway, so it makes sense that they would target some of these schools to both send a message and carry out testing for future use against U.S. and NATO forces.

And after you read this article, the question begs. Is there ANYTHING, at this point in time, that the Taliban could do that would shock you? Certainly not me. These are the same animals that sprayed acid in the faces of little Afghan school girls....who assassinate women for some a patch of skin or a lock of hair. And finally, where is the fury over this in the MSM in America? We have seen months and months of constant onslaught by the Media in America on waterboarding of terrorists who admitted killing thousands of Americans but the air waves are silent when it comes to the Taliban trying to murder and torture hundreds of Afghan school girls under the age of 12. One has to wonder who the MSM actually views as the enemy in this world.

Taliban accused of using poison gas on schools

MUHMUD RAQI, Afghanistan – Officials accused extremists of launching a poison gas attack yesterday that caused dozens of schoolgirls to collapse with headaches and nausea as they waited in line for a Qur'an reading at their school in northeastern Afghanistan.
The Taliban and other Islamic fundamentalists have regularly attacked girls schools in Afghanistan and the second apparent poisoning in two days has raised concerns that they have now found a new weapon to scare girls into staying at home rather than going to class.
Students were gathering in the yard of Aftab Bachi school in Muhmud Raqi for a morning reading of the Qur'an when a strange odour filled the area. First one girl collapsed, then others, said the school's principal, Mossena, who fought for breath as she described the event from her hospital bed.
"I saw several students fall on the ground," said Mossena, who like many Afghans goes by one name.
Teachers told the rest of the students to go home. Mossena said she did not know what happened next because she collapsed and woke up in the main hospital in Muhmud Raqi, the capital of Kapisa province, which lies just northeast of Kabul.
At least 98 people were admitted to hospital, including 84 students, 12 teachers and two cleaners, said Khalid Enayat, the hospital's deputy director. He said they were monitoring another 30 students to see if they developed symptoms.
Yesterday's incident is the third alleged poisoning at a girls' school in about two weeks. On Monday, 61 schoolgirls and one teacher went to hospital in neighbouring Parwan province with a sudden illness that caused some to pass out. In late April, dozens of girls were hospitalized in Parwan after being sickened by what officials said were strong fumes or a possible poison gas cloud.
"The enemies of Afghanistan are behind this poisoning," said Kapisa education director Abdul Gani Hedayat, using the government's term for the Taliban and other militants.
"I am 100 per cent certain it is poison," he said.
"Ninety-eight people suddenly fell sick. This isn't something that happens just normally." He said blood samples had been sent to Kabul for testing.
The Taliban and other conservative extremist groups in Afghanistan oppose education for girls.
Meanwhile in the eastern city of Khost, 11 Taliban suicide bombers struck government buildings in a daylong assault.
The assault led to running gun battles with U.S. and Afghan forces that killed 20 people.