At least 400 people are dead in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul Tuesday after Pakistani bombs targeted a drug rehab facility, the New York Times reports on the other war raging in that neighborhood of the world that got pushed out of the headlines on February 28th.
Tuesday’s horror in Kabul also appears to darkly echo that day’s Tomahawk cruise missile attack on a girls’ elementary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab, targeted erroneously because the building was once part of an adjacent Revolutionary Guard Corps complex: The building housing the “Support and Treatment Center, Omid” had been built by the US military at some point after the 2001 invasion and occupation and, like everything else abandoned during the 2021 withdrawal, was seized by the Taliban. That doesn’t necessarily mean it was or still is a legitimate military target, though Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar insisted it was being used as an ammunition depot, claiming “visible secondary detonations after the strikes” a telltale indication of such.
Either way 400+ patients trying to get sober and the staff are dead in this bloody year’s crossfire.