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Attack on American University in Afghanistan leaves 10 dead

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By LYNNE O'DONNELL

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Hmmmmm... Having an "American University" in Kabul sounds like an invitation to trouble.

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I was surprised to hear there even was a university there, and who would want to attend in a war zone known for anti-western sentiment?

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Is anyone surprised?

I'm sorry for those who suffered, but many, many more Afghanistan people suffered in Bush's insane "war on terror."

A group of Taliban insurgents reportedly entered a house in a village in Logar Province, south of Kabul, where a wedding ceremony either was or would be in progress. American and Afghan forces surrounded the house, where 18 members of a single extended family had gathered for the celebration. When firing broke out (or a grenade was thrown) and both U.S. and Afghan troops were reportedly wounded, they did indeed call in a jet, which dropped a 500-pound bomb, obliterating the residence and everyone inside, including up to nine children.

This was neither an unheard of mistake, nor an aberration in America’s Afghan War. In late December 2001, according to reports, a B-52 and two B-1B bombers, using precision-guided weapons, wiped out 110 out of 112 wedding revelers in a small Afghan village. Over the decade-plus that followed, American air power, piloted and drone, has been wiping out Afghans (Pakistanis and, until relatively recently, Iraqis) in a similar fashion -- usually in or near their homes, sometimes in striking numbers, always on the assumption that there are bad guys among them.

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Dejan Panic, the program director at Kabul’s Emergency Hospital

Panic - a sadly appropriate name for an emergency hospital worker...

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That's rushing? What a country!

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I was surprised to hear there even was a university there, and who would want to attend in a war zone known for anti-western sentiment?

The American University of Afghanistan is a private, not for profit University established by Afghans for Afghans. The American in the name refers to the fact that the school's curriculum is modeled on an American style liberal arts model.

As to the question about who would want to attend a school in a place like Kabul, Afghans I'm sure.

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@sensei258

I was surprised to hear there even was a university there, and who would want to attend in a war zone known for anti-western sentiment?

The American Uni is often a front used by the CIA

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