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Jim Schulz / S&S Wa-Il Al-Bayati, left, and Waleed Al-Bayati stand in front of their restaurant after their new windows were installed Monday.

Jim Schulz / S&S The night before the car bomb, Pizzeria Napoli owner, Waleed Al-Bayati makes the best pizzas in Iraq for the soldiers and hopes for more business in the future as the Iraq economy improves.

Many Iraqis felt the bomber had to be a foreigner, because, they said, an Iraqi would not kill fellow Iraqis. Several locals said they were angry and confused. Seventeen-year-old Ahmed Rahim was selling groceries at a sidewalk stand Sunday when the bomb’s shockwave sent him running. He fell and broke his arm. At the local hospital, Rahim saw the wounded and the dead. “It just hurts,” Rahim said. “We were going in the morning just to make our living and the next thing you know, we’re blown up.”

Is it just me or does anyone else see the way this is intended to be read?

...just a few hundred feet from where a 1,000-pound car bomb detonated Sunday killing a score of Iraqis — U.S. troops were asking when they could order pizzas.

Bastards.

The aftermath of the bombing deeply affected local Iraqis, in homes and shops most U.S. troops view only from behind barriers and rolls of concertina wire.

Bastards.

Iraqi officials said 31 people died and 120 were wounded, according to Associated Press reports. The U.S. military said 20 people died and 63 were wounded.

Bastards.

...because, they said, an Iraqi would not kill fellow Iraqis. Several locals said they were angry and confused.

[That's just stupid from a country full of mass graves filled with Iraqis by Iraqis.]

“Why don’t you open, we want pizza,” other soldiers asked al-Bayati. The troops will have to wait a few more days for al-Bayati to reopen, he said. He was still distraught by the devastation and didn’t feel ready to cook.

Bastards.