Reza Gul, a resident of Balabolok district of western Farah province, said she rushed to the small police outpost near her home after it came under attack early on November 17. Reza told NBC News she screamed in anger and grief when she saw her son Safiullah — who had been guarding the outpost along with a group of lightly armed policemen — shot dead. Then, she said, she took action. “The Taliban attacked our village and my son’s outpost at dawn, explained Gul, who like many in Afghanistan does not know her exact age but who estimates she is between 50 and 60. “After seeing my young son’s body I picked up his gun and decided to fight off the killers of my son until I die.” Gul spoke to NBC News by telephone from Farah, the capital of Farah Province. NBC News could not independently confirm Gul’s account, although local police and media repeated similar versions of the incident. “I fought them until dark along with other boys from the police, and [we] killed at least 25 of them,” she added, saying that her husband, daughter-in-law, daughter and her teenage son also joined in and supplied her with ammunition. Guls daughter, Fatima, told Afghan television channel Tolo News that she had prepared bullets for her father and mother to fight. We started a kind of family war against the Taliban, she said. nbcnews/news/world/afghan-mother-reza-gul-takes-slain-sons-gun-kill-taliban-n256631
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 03:05:08 +0000
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