Here’s some real nastiness: “Six private security guards have been beheaded during a bank robbery in Afghanistan. The victims – believed to be Afghans – were poisoned before being killed at a branch of Kabul Bank in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Police spokesman Sherjan Durani said someone had apparently mixed the poison into the [...]
I don’t generally discuss politics, but if there’s a better metaphor for what’s going wrong in Afghanistan, I’d like to hear it. From News.com.au: A YOUNG Afghan girl died after a box of public information leaflets, dropped by a Royal Air Force plane over Afghanistan, landed on her, a newspaper said Wednesday… The drop occurred [...]
Remember the big kerfuffle over Afghanistan’s so-called “marital rape” law? Well, progressive Afghan politicos have amended the proposed law. Now, women needn’t submit unconditionally to sexual advances; they just have to keep a nice house. From the AP: [President Hamid] Karzai signed the original law in March but quickly suspended enforcement after governments around the [...]
