Afghan Girls' School Possible Poison Gas Target

Dozens sickened

As many as 74 schoolgirls in Afghanistan's far north fell sick after smelling gas and were being examined for possible poisoning, local officials said on Sunday.

While instances of poisoning are sometimes later found to be false alarms, there have been numerous substantiated cases of mass poisonings of schoolgirls by elements of Afghanistan's ultra-conservative society that are opposed to female education.

Comments

[Chris Mallory]

Coming to the US if the Cosmotarians get their way. Maybe they can go visit Dalmia.

[Lyle]

Extremist Muslims... Ed Krayewski thinks they're as real as unicorns.

[Anti-War Libertarian]

Good. About time people heroically stood up to American Imperialist ideas like female education.

[JeremyR]

Anywhere but Pakistan or Afghanistan, I would write this off as one of those phantom gasser attacks. But there, it could very well be true.

But hey, feel free to make jokes about them hating us for our freedom, and not wanting to enslave the whole world into their ideology.