On the whiteboard were basic algebra functions, a/b · c/d = a.c/b.d covered in blood.
A nearby blackboard, where “Valentine day” was written in faded chalk, was riddled with holes from the ball bearings packed into the bomber’s vest.
With @FatmaFaizi.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/world/asia/afghanistan-students-bombing.html …
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Negina’s mother spent a week in Kabul to get her settled - a room for her & a friend, $30/month. Then she left for the village with the toddler. “I peaked into their empty room from the window last evening. Their lunch bowl..still there - just a salad of
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At the education center bombed, a woman named Masuma came searching for the purse of her daughter, Atika, who had survived. She told the guards that there were four books and four pens in Atika’s purse. “There are a lot of bags like that - dozens,” the guard said.pic.twitter.com/g938uj9U9E
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As they searched, the guard asked how her daughter was doing. “She’s not normal,” Ms. Masuma said. “When she sees the photos she cries a lot.” They found the bag in the lecture hall where she had bn seated. “Yes, this is hers,” Ms. Masuma said. “It has four books & four pens”pic.twitter.com/IXFBmlkik4
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Seventeen years after the American invasion, foreign money still powers opportunities for advancement in Kabul, the Afghan captial. But the recent wave of violence has made the cost of those opportunities a heavy one for the families to send their children to the city.pic.twitter.com/pc28dF6U6V
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The education center bombing was claimed by the Islamic State - latest in a brutal string targeting mosques to schools to a midwife training center. The Kabul school’s casualties were just a small fraction of the relentless bloodletting by a resurgent Taliban in the past week.pic.twitter.com/Yxn7RbwV2C
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the faces; just tragic; what a weight....
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Thank you mujib for sharing our sorrow with the world.
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she got killed?
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