In a series of air strikes launched yesterday in the Baghlan Province in northern Afghanistan, the NATO forces destroyed a public school as well as killing 30 “suspected Taliban militants,” according to the provincial governor.
The governor termed the attack on the school an “accident,” and so far there have been no reports of civilian casualties from that particular attack. The identies of the 30 slain in the other strikes have yet to be announced, beyond their being “suspects.”
NATO and the Afghan government have been struggling with a growing Taliban presence in the province over the past several year. Baghlan, as with much of the rest of northeastern Afghanistan, had virtually no Taliban presence ahead of the 2001 US invasion.
NATO also has yet to discuss the attack on the school or to provide any sort of explanation as to how the apparent accident happened. The destruction of the school will likely fuel more public opposition to the war effort.
Hey Good job guys.
With their school destroyed the students can learn ho to destroy lives like terrorists do.
NATO destroys a school? Well golly, Bobby Gibbs and the Obama must certainly be "pleased" about that. Obviously.
On the back of page 24 under the viagra ad: "We suspect there were some brown people in a building…we now suspect that they are giblets"
On the front page: "American Soldiers having a hard time getting Zombie Killer patches for their uniforms…ZOMGWTFBBQSAUCE!!!!!"
So we're spending money we don't have to bomb schools…and then we spend more money we don't have rebuilding them. I'm sure this makes sense to Obama and Co., but I personally think this war is just about the dumbest thing we can do.
So the end result is that we killed a minimum of 30 people who are potentially innocent civilians. "Suspected militant' means absolutely nothing. Until you KNOW they are militants (and specifically, militants NOT on our payroll) they are civilians and thus it's illegal to target them. This is not even taking into account the fact that a school has been destroyed 'by accident'- what are the plans to send a construction team in to rebuild it? None? That's what I thought.
Way to go, guys- I just wonder, on whose information were the strikes ordered? Your own, or that supplied by locals, who may or may not have personal beefs with people they'd like to see eliminated? Are you willing to bet YOUR LIFE on that information? Guess what- you just did- if you don't know for sure whether the person you're pulling the trigger on is an enemy, the default answer is NO. Go ahead and keep killing people when you have no clue who they are- I am sure that on Judgement Day Allah will be more than happy to explain it all to you just before your skin catches fire.
No doubt all the dead were Al Qaeda operatives #1 thru #30 and between the ages of 1 and 15. 'Gotta get 'em young' is their motto.
As for the destruction of the school, it may be a good thing, now they don't have to get student loans to pay for their education so what NATO did was really to liberate the children from the drudgery of school and a life of financial hardship albeit some knowledge.
The God of war must be proud of His "Christian" Soldiers". Now we find out who it is that Jesus would bomb. "Get them slimy bastards before they can reproduce!"