#1 Afghanistan: Suicide bomber 'aged 12' kills four
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 2:41 pm
BBC
It is difficult for me to communicate the level of loathing, contempt and hatred this excites in me. It manages to combine so many things I have a deep and complete disgust for. Where to even start?
A: Striking at civilians. There's no real military objective here. This doesn't strike at the ability to fight. This is pure bullying and murder. Lacking support or the ability to really fight, they instead turn to killing the only people who can't fight back in an attempt to terrorize them into passive submission. This is below even banditry. Slavers would look down on this.
B: The Suicide Bomber is a waste of resources and these days most of the time they are unsuccessful. At best a suicide bomber will carry one mission. One. And that mission will be the murder of people going on about their daily business. There are million better ways in an insurgency to use a supporter then to sentence him or her to death to gain some cheap terror.
C: Using a child. It is beyond a crime or simply sin to send your children out to fight your wars, it enters the realm of degeneracy and wickedness. And yes, there is a difference. Every adult as a duty to protect and care for the children around them, not to use them as some sort of human shot put for dubious temporary gain. Not only have you murdered the one person who has the greatest claim on your mercy and protection you have used them to murder others and quite likely other children as well. The efficiency of pure dripping evil is the only fucking efficiency in the entire situation! Evil is not something to be efficient at!
And folks I can keep going. Oh believe me I can keep going! These men murder children via the murder of still more children so that they may reestablish a government thought the best use of a soccer stadium was as an execution ground for women who had the gall to wear make up. WHILE VEILED! HOW THE FUCK DO YOU EVEN TELL, THEIR FACES ARE COVERED!?! Fuck that, I don't want to know. I can only pray for some fragile semblance of justice to assert itself and see these mockeries of humanity blasted from the face of the earth, to only haunt the pages of history and the nightmares of those who suffered them.
Ugh. Just, arrggh.A suicide bomber said to be aged 12 has killed four people in east Afghanistan, one of several attacks a day after the Taliban announced a spring offensive.
A dozen people were injured as the suicide bomber struck a crowded market in Paktika province, killing a local official, a woman and two other men.
In Ghazni City, a gunman opened fire at a police checkpoint, killing two police officers and two civilians.
A bicycle bomb near the city's police station wounded 13 civilians.
The BBC's Paul Wood in Kabul says some believe the suicide bomber, if he was 12, would be one of the youngest ever to have staged such an attack.
He says by one count there are more than 150 would-be suicide bombers between 13-17 years of age who have been intercepted by the Afghan security forces.
On Saturday the Taliban declared a new campaign to attack foreign troops, Afghan security forces and government officials.
International organisations, including the UN, have warned their staff not to go out unless it is absolutely necessary.
In Kandahar, in the south, and in other cities across the country, thousands of extra soldiers and police have been deployed.
A gradual withdrawal of foreign combat troops is set to begin in July as part of a handover to Afghan security forces.
It is difficult for me to communicate the level of loathing, contempt and hatred this excites in me. It manages to combine so many things I have a deep and complete disgust for. Where to even start?
A: Striking at civilians. There's no real military objective here. This doesn't strike at the ability to fight. This is pure bullying and murder. Lacking support or the ability to really fight, they instead turn to killing the only people who can't fight back in an attempt to terrorize them into passive submission. This is below even banditry. Slavers would look down on this.
B: The Suicide Bomber is a waste of resources and these days most of the time they are unsuccessful. At best a suicide bomber will carry one mission. One. And that mission will be the murder of people going on about their daily business. There are million better ways in an insurgency to use a supporter then to sentence him or her to death to gain some cheap terror.
C: Using a child. It is beyond a crime or simply sin to send your children out to fight your wars, it enters the realm of degeneracy and wickedness. And yes, there is a difference. Every adult as a duty to protect and care for the children around them, not to use them as some sort of human shot put for dubious temporary gain. Not only have you murdered the one person who has the greatest claim on your mercy and protection you have used them to murder others and quite likely other children as well. The efficiency of pure dripping evil is the only fucking efficiency in the entire situation! Evil is not something to be efficient at!
And folks I can keep going. Oh believe me I can keep going! These men murder children via the murder of still more children so that they may reestablish a government thought the best use of a soccer stadium was as an execution ground for women who had the gall to wear make up. WHILE VEILED! HOW THE FUCK DO YOU EVEN TELL, THEIR FACES ARE COVERED!?! Fuck that, I don't want to know. I can only pray for some fragile semblance of justice to assert itself and see these mockeries of humanity blasted from the face of the earth, to only haunt the pages of history and the nightmares of those who suffered them.