Friday, August 27, 2010

Taliban poison attack or mass hysteria?

  1. What's being discussed in this article?
  2. When did the event happen? (Is this breaking news or something that's been analyzed and discussed for a while?)
  3. What questions do you have that would help make this article make more sense to you? What more do you need to learn about to be able to report on this event?
 This article discuses the evacuation of Tortia high school. Tortia high school is a school in Afghanistan that teachers young women. The girls were rushed out of the school due to a possible position attacked believed to be conducted by the enemies of women's education, specifically the Taliban. Some girls even leapt out of the window for the chance to get fresh air. The smell was nauseating and apparently smelt like human sewage. A total of 46 students and nine teachers were treated in the hospital. The thought of hysteria was brought into the picture but many believe that the Talban was behind the attack.

This specific attack took place earlier this week but this is not the first time that a womens school has been attacked. These attacks have been discussed and analyzed from as early as January 2006 when a male teacher was dragged into a courtyard and decapitated by a suspected member of the Taliban.

I think that there should have been stories by some of the girls that were actually in the school and I would also like to know how they got the gases into the building.

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