(Afghan) Girls 'poisoned by militants for going to school' - USMedia says?

[papau]

Isn't time for a one year anniversary special on Laura Bush's "Free girls" speech of last year - where we learned about Bush's concern for women's right as long as they do not try to claim control of their own bodies while pregnant? Of course the Rove memo this week reminds us that the Women in Afghanistan are now free and happy. The Taliban is gone and no longer persecute anyone. And that is the story our media will feed to us - if they bother to do a story.

Anyone want to bet how much anniversary coverage this gets?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1208299,00.html

(Afghan) Girls 'poisoned by militants for going to school'

Greg Bearup in Islamabad
Monday May 3, 2004
The Guardian

Three young girls in eastern Afghanistan were in critical condition in hospital last night after being poisoned, apparently by militants as punishment for attending school.

The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, said those responsible for the poisonings, in the province of Khost, were less than human. He said the attack had been carried out by terrorists and was the work of foreign elements. <snip>

Vikram Parekh, from the International Crisis Group, said there had been a series of attacks on girls' schools, particularly in the south of the country, in recent months but this was the first time children had been attacked.

"A girl's school was recently burnt to the ground in Kandahar and others have been attacked, but this is a horrible development to see that the girls themselves would be targeted," he told the Guardian.

Few details of the incident were available last night, but militants are angry about the Karzai government's reversal of a Taliban ban on female education. Attacks on schools have also taken place in Pakistan's neighbouring North West Frontier Province . <snip>