Pakistani teen shot by Taliban returns to school
LONDON Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban, has returned to school for the first time since she was targeted.
A spokesman says the 15-year-old joined other girls at Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham for her first day back at school on Tuesday.
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Malala was airlifted to Britain for treatment after Taliban gunman shot her on Oct. 9 in northwestern Pakistan's Swat Valley. The militant group said it targeted her because she promoted "Western thinking."
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She was released in February from the hospital that was treating her for her injuries. Doctors said she was recovering well.
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In a statement, Malala said she was excited "that today I have achieved my dream of going back to school."
"I want all girls in the world to have this basic opportunity," she said.
"I miss my classmates from Pakistan very much but I am looking forward to meeting my teachers and making new friends here in Birmingham."
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glad she is doing so much better.
guns are great .....we need more guns here in the states.....this proves that guns are great.....settle all differences with a gun......crazy world
The lies used by the U.S. to promote the New World Order's corporatist annihilation of freedoms and rights are many. And, each time, too many failed to counter them. And, each time, disaster resulted.
Each lie has to be contradicted and the faults displayed, to keep their intended plan from materializing.
The Malala Yousufzai story is a tissue of lies.
They claim the BBC was broadcasting entries from Malala's diary. How did they even know what she was writing in her diary? Did they put out an audition, asking girls to provide their diary entries?
If it was so dangerous for Malala there, why didn't the BBC evacuate her earlier? Why did they identify her?
Why did it take years for the Taliban to act?
Why did they use so apparently untrustworthy a means and a gunman? Why not a suicide bomber?
The claimed trajectory for the "bullet" that reportedly hit Malala would require the gunman to be standing in mid air, three feet high.
Malala was reportedly hit in the front and was wearing a heavy cloak. But the photograph of the "crime scene" shows a huge square patch of blood on the back of the seat where she sat, behind her!
The type of injury Malala is claimed to have sustained would result in massive blood loss, a black eye, a great deal of bruising near the jaw, a powder burns, but the initial photographs of Malae only showed a darkened eye.
Supporters of the lie know they cannopt rely on qualities of the lie to defend it. As a result, they often utilize non argument methodologies to respond to criticism of their claims. Techniques such as non validated dismissiveness, viciousness, arrogance, contempt, mockery, vulgarity.