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Post by Jenifer on Jan 31, 2005 10:15:19 GMT -5
I am not trying to spark debates about the war here. I just wanted to share this news story I heard on the way into work this morning. All the suicide bombers and barbaric killing by insurgents in Iraq sickens me, but this one hit me particularly hard. Read on...
The Associated Press Monday, January 31, 2005; 6:18 AM
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's interior minister said Monday that insurgents used a handicapped child as one of the suicide bombers who launched attacks on election day.
Falah al-Naqib told reporters in Baghdad that 38 attacks were carried out on polling stations in Iraq on Sunday and that one of the suicide bombings was carried out by a disabled child.
"A handicapped child was used to carry out a suicide attack on a polling site," al-Naqib said. "This is an indication of what horrific actions they are carrying out."
He gave no other details about the attack, but police at the scene of one the Baghdad blasts said the bomber appeared to have Down's Syndrome.
Al-Naqib praised an Iraqi citizen who was killed while blocking one suicide bomber from reaching a crowd of people outside at polling station.
Iraq's prime minister, Ayad Allawi, said the seven men who carried out suicide attacks near polling stations Sunday were foreigners. In all, insurgent attacks and suicide bombers left at least 44 people dead Sunday.
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Post by Jessie on Jan 31, 2005 12:43:34 GMT -5
OMG, that just makes me sick to my stomach.
My brother-in-law is over in Iraq right now, about 60 miles north of Baghdad and we pray for his safety and all of our men over there constantly. When you hear stories like you posted, you realize there is no one that is safe over there.
Jessie
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