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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI really didn't want to post this. Tears. Lump in throat. Can't speak. 'Afghan attack: babies
killed as gunmen storm Kabul maternity ward'- BBC Newshttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52631071
BGBD
(3,282 posts)I thought the great deal maker had negotiated peace with the Taliban. Imagine that.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)Take care of yourself, my dear sprinkleeninow...
applegrove
(118,007 posts)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)As the OP link says, the hospital is in a mainly Shia area; IS calls them heretics.
applegrove
(118,007 posts)to one and all.
OAITW r.2.0
(23,810 posts)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)mercuryblues
(14,489 posts)niyad
(112,424 posts)This is truly horrifying. Please take care of yourself. Be safe.
applegrove
(118,007 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)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)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.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)No babies were thrown out of incubators. Do some research before passing crap on.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,282 posts)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.
applegrove
(118,007 posts)clearer.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"I happen to be one that thinks the corona virus is overblown..."
Or a different kind of debunking?
applegrove
(118,007 posts)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)muriel_volestrangler
(101,146 posts)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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