XHTML Strict 1.0 - target="_blank" not valid?

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Published on 2011-01-12T08:09:23Z Indexed on 2011/01/13 5:53 UTC
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I just validated my actual XHTML Strict 1.0 doc with the w3c validator service.. and it says that,

<ul id="socialnetwork">
            <li><a href="http://www.twitter.com" target="_blank"></a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.flickr.com" target="_blank"></a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.xing.com" target="_blank"></a></li>
            <li><a href="http://www.rss.com" target="_blank"></a></li>
</ul>

the target="_blank" is not valid.. but I need the target blank so a new tab will open in the browser, so that the user does not leave the main page.

What can I do? Why is this not valid?

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