Attackers gouge out Afghan man's eyes (Religion of Peace)

by Virginia Ridgerunner
Armed assailants attacked a man and gouged out his eyes in front of his family during a gruesome assault in southern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
Sayed Ghulam, 52, was recovering in a hospital in the country's largest southern city, Kandahar.
Ghulam said three armed men knocked on his door in the Sangin district of Helmand province late Thursday. When he opened the door, they punched him in the face, put the barrel of a Kalashnikov rifle in his mouth and gouged out his eyes with a knife in the presence of his wife and seven children.
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