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Iraq
booby trapped baby bomber in Bagdad thwarted
2003-10-27
From HealingIraq today
- thanks to Fred for adding Zayad to his long list of hotlinked blogs
Baby Bombs

The Mujahedeen are getting very creative day by day. Someone told me yesterday that a woman carrying a baby just a few months old was arrested in front of Al Yarmuk hospital in Baghdad after trying to enter. The IP and FPS found out that the baby was wrapped in explosives between his clothes. After questioning the woman she confessed that the baby was kidnapped and that some Arabs
does she mean arabs with non iraq accents?
had offered her a considerable amount of money to get the baby inside the crowded emergency hall in the hospital, leave it there and they would do the rest. Pretty amazing isn’t it? Hospitals? I can’t understand why they didn’t hang the woman on the spot. Because obviously the terrorists are craving for some attention. We could have given them all the attention they wanted by doing that.
I find this almost too depressing for comment and yet, it demonstrates something about the kind of people who the AP and Reuters depicts as the heroes of resistance.
Posted by:mhw

#13  Oops, that first sentence should read:

"I don't doubt that Zayed is reporting things faithfully, and have no doubt that he's who he says he is and believes what he writes, it's just that
Posted by: Bulldog   2003-10-28 4:35:22 AM  

#12  SH, I don't doubt that Zayed is reporting things faithfully, and no doubt that he's who he is and believes what he writes, it's just that this particular outrage could so easily be an urban myth. AFAIK, this hasn't been reported anywhere in any media, so I'm going to continue to be sceptical, unless/until it's corroborated.
Posted by: Bulldog   2003-10-28 4:03:32 AM  

#11  Bulldog,
I read what Zeyed has posted so far and most of it rings pretty true. His coverage of the dog sniffing episode is pretty balancedand has detail that he would only have if he were talking to witnesses.

For instance, Zeyed relays that the day after "sniffex" the coalition had women Iraqi police at the site of the riot to conduct searches. This would be an obvious Western solution, but Zeyed expreses surprise that there is such a thing as women police.
This confusion as the two cultures mix strikes me as real.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-10-27 7:49:47 PM  

#10  Sounds pretty terrible, but I'm going to do a doubting Thomas and point out that this story has nothing in the way of credible evidence to support it. I hope it's not true...
Posted by: Bulldog   2003-10-27 6:32:41 PM  

#9  mwh - good point.
Posted by: B   2003-10-27 1:26:27 PM  

#8  Greg,
I wish I could agree with you that only non Iraqis could be so in human. However, the Baathists had concentration camps for children, and they tortured and raped people in front of relatives. It isn't much of a step from that to putting disguised explosives on babies. This doesn't mean it was necessarily Baathists who did this, but it certainly could have been.
Posted by: mhw   2003-10-27 1:22:49 PM  

#7  This highlights something very important about the situation in Iraq. It seems to me that the majority of violence is being done by non-Iraqis. I am more than happy to admit that there a lot of Iraqis who don't want us there. But I can't believe that they would be so eager to stoop this low!
Posted by: Greg   2003-10-27 12:52:02 PM  

#6  Only Islam would countenance such an act. It is, well, it's just beyond words.
Posted by: .com   2003-10-27 11:21:13 AM  

#5  pleeeeeease...I beg you....don't feed the troll.
Posted by: B   2003-10-27 10:56:00 AM  

#4  The Religon of Peace wishes everybody a Happy Ramadan!
Posted by: tu3031   2003-10-27 10:30:07 AM  

#3  Another reason why a picture of a four-year-old being frisked by a GI should not generate outrage at the GI but at the "resistance" and their mentality that any innocent is exploitable and expendable.
Posted by: Dar   2003-10-27 10:26:38 AM  

#2  Murat -- A 'Real Man' doesn't hide bombs in babies and then get a woman to do his dirty work either....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2003-10-27 10:14:05 AM  

#1  Murat -- this is the "resistance" you've been crowing about.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2003-10-27 10:06:10 AM  

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