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Iraq

Baby killed, parents injured in boom on ambulance

2006-06-04

Unidentified militants attacked Saturday two ambulances, killing and injuring several people including an infant in the Diyala Province. A Interior Ministry statement said the militants set off a bomb as an ambulance passed by heading from Al-Miqdadiyah town to Baquba's center. A pregnant woman who was taken to delivery, two other women, and two men were in the vehicle that was heading to hospital, the statement added. The pregnant woman was seriously injured forcing the medics to perform the delivery at the scene of the incident, but the militants attacked another ambulance that came to rescue the newborn and his parents, leading to his death and the injury of others.

Posted by:Fred

#14
"They can't be making any friends even among fellow muslims. So why do it?"

It's called TERROR! It exists as its own reason. Doesn't make sense to you or I, but no one has ever claimed that Arab/Jihadi thought was based in logic or sense.

-M

Posted by: Manolo 2006-06-05 00:02

#13 Radical Islam is doing everything and anything violentand horrific as they can to induce America to attack and invade Syria-Iran and elsewhere. Attacking Sunnis, Shias, Iraqis and Non-Iraqis, Muslims and Non-Muslims, etal. even going after Russki diplomats. Attacking Police and Soldiers = wiping out the local Daycare, Women, Schools and Hospitals, etc. MADMOUD > ANY ATTACK BY ISRAEL ANDOR AMERICA-ALLIES AGAINST IRAN [and by extens Other(s)]JUSTIFIES IRANIAN-SPONSORED OR ALIGNED TERROR STRIKES AGAINST ANY ANDOR ALL. IMHO these Radics are busting their blood veins waiting or trying to force Dubya, America, and Israel to militarily respond to them.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-06-04 23:23

#12 Al:

Perhaps. But you think they'd be more than willing to just blow everything up. For the most part, what I've seen in the news aligns with their view of sharia law, such as blowing up schools because girls are supposed to grow up barefoot and pregnant. But this is beyond the pale, beyond explanation by any kind of sharia law that I've ever heard of (which isn't much!). They can't be making any friends even among fellow muslims. So why do it? Perhaps they paid a bunch of thugs and they got carried away? Doesn't seem like that because it was too coordinated.

2b: I've always thought Bush's ulterior motive was just to install an example of democracy in the middle of the middle east and let everybody kind of watch over the fence and get the idea "for themselves" :-) The rest is window dressing. It's also a good example of how far we are willing to go to help the poor ba$tards if they really need it. That can't go unnoticed forever. These people are very social and word will get around eventually, no matter what the mullahs tell them to think. Hard to ignore the elephant sitting quietly in the corner of the living room! Most of AQ's guys are young, and the fighters are getting younger buy the week it seems. They even have to resort to blackmail and bribery to get some dumb young people to pull off these attacks.

Posted by: grb 2006-06-04 15:38

#11 Attacking ambulances? Must be something in the Geneva Conventions about that. Somebody go tell Amnesty International!

Posted by: SteveS 2006-06-04 15:34

#10 The whole point is to destroy existing society and replace it with one run by Sharia.

just like communism. No need to get pessimistic. They can't win. We've already routed AQ, no matter what the MSM tells you. Western civilization has aready corrupted them with ideas of democracy, freedom of speech and women's rights, mirth and frivolity, and we'll have fuel cells before you know it.

Posted by: 2b 2006-06-04 15:03

#9 GRB,
The Jihadi book on how to take over the world is called the "Management of Barbarism". The whole point is to destroy existing society and replace it with one run by Sharia. Once society has been reduced to complete chaos, everyone will be happy for any kind of order what-so-ever. Kind of like the Taliban in the 90s.

Al

Posted by: Frozen Al 2006-06-04 14:32

#8 Where is Joe Burns of the NYT now? Is he more concerned about racing to scream about his self-titled "Mei Lei of Iraq" to win a Pulitzer, or reporting the truth?

Posted by: anymouse 2006-06-04 13:01

#7 I'm sure this will get as much media coverage as the alleged Marine shootings, right? Heh.

Every minute spent hand wringing on the missteps of the Coalition forces and every minute of disinterest in what is the enemy's MO just confirms that they are willing participants in the war on the other side.

Posted by: Speaque Cloluns6548 2006-06-04 09:58

#6 Doesn't everyone know that shia women have tails? So its not like they are aware. Most be in the Koran somewhere.

Posted by: bruce 2006-06-04 08:25

#5 Make sense?
Are you sure you have the right war?

Posted by: 6 2006-06-04 05:49

#4 2b: Sort of. It's half rhetorical, but I'm curious to know if even other muslims understand what's going on. Maybe someone has seen something that makes this "make sense", for lack of a better phrase. :-(

Posted by: grb 2006-06-04 01:35

#3 does it really matter?

Posted by: 2b 2006-06-04 01:28

#2 Perhaps I'm just ignorant, but has anyone dug up the "reasoning" behind this attack? Perhaps it's a cultural thing because the reporter didn't bother to go into any detail on it. Perhaps the reporter doesn't know either?

Posted by: grb 2006-06-04 00:42

#1 boy howdy, if this isn't a fitting battle victory for the Lions of Islam; Warriors of the Desert, then I don't know what is....maybe a chemical weapons attack at a Special Olympics?

Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-04 00:18

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