2 children beheaded by militants, Afghan authorities say

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12. What has this killing to do with religion?????

Sorry, nothing in the Article indicts this was a RELIGIOUS Killing. The location gives me the impression it was a military operation. Given a choice between hitting the Check point (using the dump as a cover since others were at the dump) and hitting the dump, which would you choose? I would hit the check point from the dump. This my comment this killing does NOT makes sense for the Taliban to do. If the Taliban killed these boys, that means they are killing their own cover. That makes NO SENSE in any MILITARY OPERATION.

Get away from the idea that the Taliban kill JUST FOR RELIGION. They are NOT, most of the moves the Taliban do is to win the war and that concentration is why the Taliban are winning the war in Afghanistan. This extends to their attack on schools, since schools means the Government is doing some good, it turns people away from the fight against the Government, thus the schools must be shut down. The Viet Cong did the same thing in Vietnam. The Algerian resistance (which was more communist then religions in their war against the French in the 1950s) did the same thing for the same reason. The US contras in Nicaragua did the same thing in the 1980s. They want the people to look to the Taliban as their legitimate government and sole provider of Government Services, including education. Thus in guerrilla warfare, Schools are a prime target.

Thus the Taliban has attacked schools in the past, they have NOT attacked people going through a Garbage dump. Why would the Taliban do so? They gain nothing from it. Thus my comment, looks who BENEFIT from this attack, and it does NOT look like it is the Taliban.