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I really didn't want to post this. Tears. Lump in throat. Can't speak. 'Afghan attack: babies (Original Post) sprinkleeninow May 2020 OP
Hmmm..... BGBD May 2020 #1
It's horrifying. I don't know how anyone can comit atrocities like this. CaliforniaPeggy May 2020 #2
I don't see what they hoped to get out of killing babies so it makes me applegrove May 2020 #3
Yes, they are there; the Afghan state said they arrested a leader a couple of days ago muriel_volestrangler May 2020 #12
I shudder to know any more than i do. But thanks for clarifying. Vibes applegrove May 2020 #14
Makes me wonder why we were there in the 1st place. OAITW r.2.0 May 2020 #4
I seem to remember something about a 917-mile long natural gas pipeline. niyad May 2020 #7
So sad mercuryblues May 2020 #5
May the Goddess of Retribution deal with these monsters appropriately, and swiftly. niyad May 2020 #6
Yes. May they meet the same fate. applegrove May 2020 #8
Really? PoindexterOglethorpe May 2020 #9
I saw a report on the news. It was just awful what these monsters did. I know the US claimed Saddam applegrove May 2020 #11
Debunked. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2020 #16
Isn't that what Applegrove wrote? That the claim was bunk? JustABozoOnThisBus May 2020 #17
I said it was propaganda. I was agreeing with you. Adding 'false' to make it applegrove May 2020 #18
Debunked like... LanternWaste May 2020 #19
They were confused. They thought i was saying the Saddam Hussein applegrove May 2020 #20
Yes, really. Ask MSF: muriel_volestrangler May 2020 #13
24 dead in all; MSF Head of Programmes says they targeted the maternity ward muriel_volestrangler May 2020 #21
Post removed Post removed May 2020 #10
WTF? malaise May 2020 #15

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,296 posts)
2. It's horrifying. I don't know how anyone can comit atrocities like this.
Tue May 12, 2020, 11:37 PM
May 2020

Take care of yourself, my dear sprinkleeninow...



applegrove

(118,007 posts)
3. I don't see what they hoped to get out of killing babies so it makes me
Tue May 12, 2020, 11:40 PM
May 2020

Last edited Wed May 13, 2020, 02:54 AM - Edit history (1)

think it is ISIS. Is ISIS in Afghanistan? Because it seems to me the Taliban wanted to be recognized by other countries at this point. Maybe it was a Reichstag Fire? So many psychopaths in this world. Still it is hard to accept. Did it really happen?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,146 posts)
12. Yes, they are there; the Afghan state said they arrested a leader a couple of days ago
Wed May 13, 2020, 04:06 AM
May 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-52623291

As the OP link says, the hospital is in a mainly Shia area; IS calls them heretics.

OAITW r.2.0

(23,810 posts)
4. Makes me wonder why we were there in the 1st place.
Tue May 12, 2020, 11:41 PM
May 2020

People like this don't want democracy. There ain't no Tom Jefferson or George Washington in their DNA. Not that I think we have ever tried to create real democracy since the 60's. It was always about economic opportunism.

niyad

(112,424 posts)
6. May the Goddess of Retribution deal with these monsters appropriately, and swiftly.
Tue May 12, 2020, 11:44 PM
May 2020

This is truly horrifying. Please take care of yourself. Be safe.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
9. Really?
Wed May 13, 2020, 12:27 AM
May 2020

I seem to recall that similar claims were made in the past which were simply untrue. So I want to see more verification here.

I know. Facts. Silly things that they are.

applegrove

(118,007 posts)
11. I saw a report on the news. It was just awful what these monsters did. I know the US claimed Saddam
Wed May 13, 2020, 02:01 AM
May 2020

Last edited Wed May 13, 2020, 11:53 AM - Edit history (1)

Hussein threw babies out of incubators in the first war with Iraq under George Bush I. That was false propaganda that fooled everyone including amnesty international. This time it was a terrorist shoot out in a maternity hospital that went on for hours. Try cbc news.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,282 posts)
17. Isn't that what Applegrove wrote? That the claim was bunk?
Wed May 13, 2020, 05:54 AM
May 2020

It's a long war, this whole Sunni vs Shiite thing. We help one side, then the other, as if one side is "good", the other "bad".

It's time to end this Afghan adventure.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
19. Debunked like...
Wed May 13, 2020, 12:58 PM
May 2020

"I happen to be one that thinks the corona virus is overblown..."

Or a different kind of debunking?

applegrove

(118,007 posts)
20. They were confused. They thought i was saying the Saddam Hussein
Wed May 13, 2020, 11:35 PM
May 2020

incubater babies being ditched US propaganda was real. It was false propaganda from a war 30 years ago. I added the "false" in my thread to be clearer. The MSF maternity hospital being attacked yesterday is true. What did you mean?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,146 posts)
21. 24 dead in all; MSF Head of Programmes says they targeted the maternity ward
Fri May 15, 2020, 12:22 PM
May 2020
The attackers had walked straight past a number of other wards, all closer to the entrance of Kabul's Dasht-e-Barchi hospital, and made straight for the maternity unit.

To him, it meant one thing: this was no mistake.

"What I saw in the maternity demonstrates it was a systematic shooting of the mothers," Bonnot, Medicin Sans Frontiere's (MSF) Head of Programmes in Afghanistan, said. "They went through the rooms in the maternity, shooting women in their beds. It was methodical.

"They came to kill the mothers."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-52673563

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