Here is a reminder as to why out troops are in Afghanistan. And to think that people like Jack Layton want to give Afghanistan back to the Taliban so that they can once again use soccer fields for public executions.
Taliban gunmen kill 5 family members in attack on teachers in Afghanistan
Published: Saturday, December 9, 2006 | 12:20 PM ET
Canadian Press
GHWANDO, Afghanistan (AP) - Following up on a death threat, Taliban militants broke into a house and fatally shot two teachers and three family members, bringing to 20 the number of educators slain in attacks this year, officials and a relative said Saturday.
The Taliban attack on two teachers, sisters living in the same house, happened overnight in a village in the Narang district of eastern Kunar province.
After climbing over an outer wall with a ladder, gunmen killed the two teachers, their mother and grandmother and a 20-year-old male relative and wounded a younger male relative, said Dr. Ghaleb, a family relative who, like many Afghans, goes by one name.
The sisters had been warned in a letter from the Taliban to quit teaching, said Gulam Ullah Wekar, the provincial education director. It warned the women that their work as teachers went against Islam, and if they continued they would "end up facing the penalty."
The Taliban militia, which banned girls from going to school during its rule, opposes any education for females and non-religious education for anyone.
So far this year, 20 teachers have been slain in Taliban attacks, said Zuhur Afghan, spokesman for the Education Ministry. He said 198 schools had been burned down.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/061209/w120923A.html