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Afghanistan |
Taliban to open 'jihad schools' |
2007-01-22 |
Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents say they are going to spend $1 million on opening schools in areas they control to counter the propaganda of the West and the Western-backed government. The Taliban banned girls from education during their rule, and have attacked hundreds of schools and killed some teachers and pupils in recent years as part of their war against the government and its Western backers. “The aims are to reopen schools so children who are deprived can benefit and secondly, to counter the propaganda of the West and its puppets against Islam, jihad and the Taliban,” a Taliban spokesman, Abdul Hai Mutmaen, said by telephone from an undisclosed location. “Students will be taught subjects that are in line with Islamic teaching and jihad,” he said late on Saturday. In another development on Sunday, a suicide bomber in a car targeted a NATO convoy just south of Kabul. The bomber was killed in the blast. |
Posted by:Fred |
#6 I, for one, applaud Mr. Mutmaen and his Taliban groupies for educating the masses there. After all, bin Laden himself started education in Afghanistan and built all sorts of wonderful things there! |
Posted by: Patty Murray - Donk 2007-01-22 16:02 |
#5 They have non-jihad schools? |
Posted by: Excalibur 2007-01-22 11:05 |
#4 The Taliban would do better to open baseball camps and learn how to throw. |
Posted by: ed 2007-01-22 09:49 |
#3 Heh... nothing about 'bravely running away' in there, MacNails. |
Posted by: Howard UK 2007-01-22 09:42 |
#2 a Taliban spokesman, Abdul Hai Mutmaen, said by telephone from There, fixed it. |
Posted by: Spot 2007-01-22 08:05 |
#1 #1 - The first rule of Jihad Club is, you do not talk about Jihad Club. #2 - The second rule of Jihad Club is, you DO NOT talk about Jihad Club. #3 - If someone says stop, goes limp, taps out, his Jihad is over. #4 - Two guys against innocent women and children to a fight. #5 - One fight at a time. #6 - No shirts, no shoes. Just bhurkas #7 - Fights will go on as long as they have to. #8 - If this is your first night at Jihad Club, you have to fight. |
Posted by: MacNails 2007-01-22 06:48 |