News Article

1. What's being discussed in this article?

This article, "Taliban Poison Attack or mass Hysteria?  Chaos hits another Kabul girls' school," discusses recent "attacks" against girls' schools in Afghanistan.  There have been claims that the Taliban have been planting poisonous gas around girls' schools in order to send a message of their disapproval- the Taliban banned women's education during their regime from 1996-2001.  Though incidences such as these have happened before with hysteria being a possible cause, doctors believe that this most recent incident cannot be mistaken for hysteria.  However, regardless of the great detail of the horrific experience that many girls allegedly went through and saw, western doctors are skeptical as to whether anyone was actually poisoned because they cannot find any sign of poison.

1. When did the event happen? (Is this breaking news or something that's been analyzed and discussed for a while?)

 The main attack that is discussed in this article happened very recently; however, the topic of these types of attacks is nothing new.  The fight between the Muslim world regarding women's education has been present for a while.

1. What questions do you have that would help make this article make more sense to you? What more do you need to learn about to be able to report on this event?

The event is pretty clear.  There was nothing outrageously complex about it.