I think (hope) you are more right than wrong!
I don't know how many Americans are alert enough to ask such questions, though.
More are of the type of shoot first and ask questions later, if at all.
Suicide car bombing kills 51 in Iraq
7/28/2004, 5:30 a.m. ET
By PAUL GARWOOD
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — A suicide car bomb exploded outside a police recruiting center in Baqouba on Wednesday, killing 51 Iraqis in the worst attack in Iraq since the United States transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government last month, officials said.
The attacker drove a car carrying explosives up to the crowd of people gathered outside the al-Najda station in Baqouba to apply for police jobs, said Gen. Walid al-Azawi, chief of police in Diyala Province....
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