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Tidbits from Both Sides of the Fight

Compare and Contrast….

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the Taliban’s words:

Provincial, districts’ leaders and rest of Mujahideen are bound to take best possible steps to ensure safety and security of the civilian‘s life and property. In case of violation Punishment will be granted to the offender.

…and the Taliban’s deeds:

Five-year-old Kamila Gul should not have survived the mine blast that slammed shrapnel into her tiny body, most of it to her skull.

Medical staff at Kandahar Airfield hospital call her a miracle.

After more than seven weeks of care following emergency surgery to remove the shrapnel from her brain, the little girl – staring stoic from her hospital cot into the eyes of onlookers while she plays with a plastic yellow hairbrush – will be ready to return home within a week.

The Taliban put the mine there. It killed my brother,” her father Fada Gul, seated cross-legged and barefoot on the bed beside his bandaged child, says through an Afghan translator….

‘Nuf said.

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Written by milnewsca

27 November 09 at 11:08

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