Posted on 03/20/2007 9:05:17 PM PDT by summer
BAGHDAD, March 20 — Insurgents detonated a bomb in a car with two children in it after using the children as decoys to get through a military checkpoint in Baghdad, an American general said Tuesday.
Speaking at a news briefing at the Pentagon, Maj. Gen. Michael Barbaro, deputy director for regional operations at the Joint Staff, said American soldiers had stopped the car at the checkpoint but had allowed it to pass after seeing the two children in the back seat.
“Children in the back seat lower suspicion,” he said, according to a transcript. “We let it move through. They parked the vehicle. The adults run out and detonate it with the children in back.”
General Barbaro offered no further details...
Agence France-Presse, quoting an unidentified American military official, said the incident occurred Sunday. The bombers parked the vehicle across the street from a school then ran away, leaving the children inside, the official told the news agency. The blast killed the children and three other civilians and wounded seven, the official said...
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I don't usually post news about the war; it's too depressing to me. But this was just too much to ignore.
Freedom Fighters. Yeah, that's it.
They really are terrorists. Taking the lives of children like that. Just terrible.
Oh..no way!!
Animals!!!
This answers the question of why they hate us.....THEY"RE EVIL!!!
Awful.....
words fail
I just sent this story to a liberal who I argued with today over whether these were militants just fighting our army or whether they were terrorists with no regard for human life.
I doubt he's going to concede an inch, even in light of this.
That people would ruthlessly attack Bush and ignore and even fight for the savages who perpetrate this mess is beyond tolerable.
I can't comprehend such evil.
Those poor little innocents are in a better place now.
Those poor little innocents are in a better place now.
Gimma a break; they'd be better off living their lives first and among sane people, not their hate-filled, jealous executioners.
Go to the posted article and scroll down for the video.
It would seem they were not under suspicion.
Why could they not have taken the two children out and strolled away with them and then detonated the bomb.
Because the filthy inhuman POS TERRORISTS had no other use for the kids and killing them meant nothing to them.
Well duh!!! You reckon? Unfortunately, they weren't. They were at the mercy of cold-blooded killers.
But, don't you see, everything happens according to Allah's plan, thus the fact that the murderous thugs blew up the children was merely a manifestation of the will of Allah.
Allahu Akbar!
Mustafa, quick get me my rusty knife so that I may behead another infidel! I have no choice in the matter, it is merely Allah's will.
These aren't barbarians. These are evil monsters.
Sure would love to hear what Rosie O'Doughnut has to say about this incident.
These are "people" the NYT and the dems want to win.
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