Posted by
tohu.vavohu on Saturday, February 02, 2008 2:15:36 AM
From the
AP:
"Two women described as mentally disabled and strapped with remote-control explosives — and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers — brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at least 91 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring.
Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, Iraq's chief military spokesman in Baghdad, said the women had Down syndrome and may not have known they were on suicide missions, but gave no further details on how authorities pieced together the evidence. He also said the bombs were detonated by remote control."
And unfortunately this isn't the first of it's kind:
"Even the use of the handicapped in suicide bombings is not unprecedented in Iraq. In January 2005, Iraq's interior minister said insurgents used a disabled child in a suicide attack on election day. Police at the scene of the bombing said the child appeared to have Down syndrome."
This is evidence of the enemy we fight. Not just in Iraq but coming on a global front. This is what they are willing to resort to. We are much better than they. Never accept anyone telling you different. It does matter that we are there. It does.
~tohu.va.vohu