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This is a story that encompasses both a deadly tragedy and an
act of bravery and heroism. It comes to us from Ghor province in
the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, well to the west of
Kabul. The events in question took place in the middle of the
night last Friday at the home of 16-year-old Qamar Gul, her
parents and her 12-year-old brother. At one o’clock in the
morning, roughly 40 Taliban fighters entered their town and
began assaulting people in their homes. Qamar’s father was the
chief of the village and a known supporter of the current
government and the American forces backing it up. Some of the
terrorists began beating on the Guls’ door and things went
downhill from there quickly. (NY Post)

They knocked on the door around 1 a.m. on July 17, according to
the report.

“The insurgents came to their doorstep and her mother went to
see who was knocking,” provincial governor spokesman Mohamed
Aref Aber told the outlet. “When she saw that they were armed,
she refused to open the door.”

The attackers quickly shot Gul’s mother, and then barged into
the home where they fired at her father, according to Aber.

But thankfully the story didn’t end there. The teenage girl
picked up her father’s AK-47 and gave as good as or better than
she got. She killed at least two of the terrorists and injured
several others. By then the village residents had marshaled a
counterattack and the Taliban were forced to retreat.

“Qamar Gul, who was inside the house, took an AK-47 gun the
family had and first shot dead the two Taliban fighters who
killed her parents, and then injured a few others,” the police
official told AFP.

The Guardian later reported that three insurgents were killed,
citing Aber.

Several other Taliban fighters later showed up to attack the
home, but a group of villagers and pro-government militiamen
engaged them in a gunfight, forcing them to retreat.

While revenge may seem appealing at the moment, nothing will
replace the loss of the children’s parents. Even worse, Qamar
now has a target on her back, probably for the rest of her life.
Having fought back and killed some of the Taliban fighters was
probably bad enough in the minds of the terrorists. But for a
girl to do it… and a child, no less. Well, that’s not going to
go over well with the Taliban.

Local officials said that Qamar and her brother had been moved
to a safer location for the time being and they have only one
other relative living in that village. That situation may hold
for a while, but the Taliban has been known to strike many years
after a perceived slight, so both of the children would likely
be much safer if they could be relocated out of the country.

This incident should serve as a reminder that little or nothing
has changed about the Taliban since the United States military
first arrived there nearly 20 years ago. The terrorists are not
just located in groups near where the fighting with the
government and allied forces is taking place. They’re all over
the country and they murder and terrorize their own people even
more than they do their sworn enemies. Qamar’s father wasn’t any
sort of soldier who had spilled the blood of the Taliban, at
least according to this report. His only “sin” was to express
support for the current American-backed government. And that was
enough to bring a death sentence down upon his head.

But even in that darkest of moments, one young girl found
something inside of her allowing her to stand up to the
militants and keep her brother and herself alive. She’s now
being celebrated as a heroic figure. I only pray that she lives
long enough to get through her grieving and move on with her
life.

https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/07/22/teenage-afghan- girl-kills-taliban-fighters-murdered-parents/
 

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