Saturday, November 10, 2007
Suffer The Children
170 innocents shattered by Islamofascism. Can we get the bomber some Constitutional rights so that leftards will be all happy?Dozens of schoolchildren and five teachers were among those killed in a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan earlier this week — the country's deadliest since the fall of the Taliban — the government said Friday.
The 59 schoolchildren had lined up to greet a group of lawmakers visiting a sugar factory in the northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday when a suicide bomber detonated explosives.
"The education minister has ordered that no children should be ever again be used in these sort of events," said Zahoor Afghan, an Education Ministry spokesman. He said the children ranged in age from 8 to 18.
In all, the explosion claimed the lives of at least 75 people, including several parliamentarians, and wounded 96. It was the deadliest attack in the country since the toppling of the Taliban regime from power in the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.