A Shot To the Heart In Baghdad: One Child Killed In Attack on School

WP ^ | October 21 2005 | Jonathan Finer and John Ward Anderson

[jmc1969]

BAGHDAD, Oct. 20 -- Two hours after the explosion, the fifth grade classroom was silent and deserted, the air still lightly tinged with smoke. Abandoned grammar books lay open to Thursday's lesson, which was also printed on the blackboard.

At least one student was killed and four were wounded in the attack at the Tigris Mixed Primary School in the well-to-do Mansour neighborhood. In Baghdad, where even far larger death tolls can generate little notice these days, the bombing was a grim and unexplained twist of fate.

"They are supposed to be safe here," said Ziad Nasseri, who was shopping nearby when he heard the blast just after 11 a.m. He ran to the school as frightened students were fleeing the building and found his son, Zaid, 9, whose shirt was soaked with another child's blood.

Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch said that "terrorists and foreign fighters" whose tactics are focused on suicide bombings were the "most lethal" insurgents.

[highlander_UW]

Sad as a child's death is, it is no surprise given that he lived in a land populated by followers of the cult of death.

[McGavin999]

So, now these big brave jihadis have taken to killing school children while they are in class.

[Doctor Raoul]

Code PINK endorses attacks targeting children. Code PINK calls them, "acts of desperation" that are "legitimate and justified".

See http://www.worldtribunal.org/main/?b=91 and page down once to Overview of Fundings #11.

Killing of children is evil. Calling it "legitimate and justified" is evil. Code PINK is pure evil.

[Marine_Uncle]

The Sunni better start thinking hard and long what some of them continue to support. It is hard to believe even the most screwed up far left socialist out of say EU, would condon what they allow to continue to go on. The black rock has made their hearts black.

[weegee]

After the Beslan mass rape/massacre this act of Islamonazism does not surprise me.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Elsewhere in Iraq Thursday, the Iraqi government reported that Yasser Sabawi, a relative of deposed President Saddam Hussein, was arrested Wednesday, the first day of Hussein's trial on charges of crimes against humanity. He was found among a crowd of protesters in Tikrit, a northern city near the village where Hussein was born.

Interior Minister Bayan Jabr described Sabawi as a major financier for the insurgency who helped channel foreign money to fighters in Iraq.

[Alexander Rubin]

There was rape in Beslan?