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| More From the Religion of Pieces (of Children) |
| 2007-03-20 |
| WASHINGTON (AFP) - Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday. The vehicle was stopped at the checkpoint but was allowed through when soldiers saw the children in the back, said Major General Michael Barbero of the Pentagon's Joint Staff. "Children in the back seat lowered suspicion. We let it move through. They parked the vehicle, and the adults ran out and detonated it with the children in the back," Barbero said. The general said it was the first time he had seen a report of insurgents using children in suicide bombings. But he said Al-Qaeda in Iraq is changing tactics in response to the tighter controls around the city. A US defense official said the incident occurred on Sunday in Baghdad's Adhamiyah district, a mixed neighborhood adjacent to Sadr City, which is predominantly Shiite. After going through the checkpoint, the vehicle parked next to a market across the street from a school, said the official, who asked not to be identified. "And the two adults were seen to get out of the vehicle, and run from the vehicle, and then followed by the detonation of the vehicle," the official said. "It killed the two children inside as well as three other civilians in the vicinity. So, a total of five killed, seven injured," the official said. Officials here said they did not know who the children were or their relationship to the two adults who fled the scene. They had no information about their ages or genders. "The brutality and the ruthlessness of this enemy hasn't changed," said Barbero, deputy director of regional operations of the Joint Staff. "They are just interested in slaughtering Iraqi civilians, to be very honest." |
| Posted by:Glenmore |
| #16 I beg your pardon, that would be Steven and not Steve. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-03-20 23:38 |
| #15 I will pray for the souls of those children tonight and ask God for justice for them. As a scientific agnostic, such actions are not among my usual repetoire, Steve. Please permit me to ask that you repeat the same words in my name too. If there is a God, I dread to think what awaits so many of Islam's followers. Even the eternally damned would shrink from envying them. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-03-20 23:37 |
| #14 You said it beautifully for all of us, dephi2005. We must win this war. Losing is not an option. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-03-20 22:38 |
| #13 I sit here crying. My 12 yr old son is in his room reading and drawing, my 10 yr old daughter is with my wife of 24 yrs. I will pray for the souls of those children tonight and ask God for justice for them. |
| Posted by: Steven 2007-03-20 22:37 |
| #12 GOD is not with you, Moslem on this account. Your sacrifice of Abel will never be sufficient, Cain. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-03-20 22:36 |
| #11 The religion of frying children in the BACK SEAT? Brave warriors of , I forgot. Curse you, you infidel. Curse the lot of you. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-03-20 22:33 |
| #10 Michael Moore's freedom fighters.... Hey Cindy Shehag - these are the fuckers who killed your son. These are your allies! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2007-03-20 22:22 |
| #9 Ahhh... Freedom fighters..... |
| Posted by: CRay 2007-03-20 22:21 |
| #8 I just read the same story on LGF a few moments ago. As a parent, words don't seem sufficient. Just when I think I have a understanding of this religion, I read stories like this. It is impossible to imagine what the effects of this will be for the soldiers who witness this incident. This is likely to be remembered years after these folks return home. Children to me are the most precious things to me. I watched them come into this world, see them grow, live and learn. This kind of behaviour is to me, the most reprehensible and are nothing more than a another example of barbarism that exists. The insurgents who carried this out as just another act of militancy, are lower than animals. May God have mercy on these two childrens lives and for the all of the others who given their lives, including the coalition military and civilians in trying to restore stability to this part of the world. From Mozarts Requiem: Requiem aeternam dona ets, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ets. Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem. Exaudi orationem meam, ad te omnis caro veniet. Requiem aeternam dona ets, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ets. Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine on them. Thou, O God, art praised in Sion, and unto Thee shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem. Hear my prayer, unto Thee shall all flesh come. Grant them eternal rest, 0 Lord, and may perpetual light shine on them. |
| Posted by: delphi2005 2007-03-20 21:48 |
| #7 and this is from AFP wow |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-03-20 20:38 |
| #6 If we still have any flame throwers left, now is the time to break them out. No need to worry about inhumanity, the people we are fighting have just proved that they are not human beings and have no respect for human beings. Children have no political leanings, to kill them is a sin in any religion. There can be no excuse for this. It is time to pull out all the stops. Don't waste another million dollar JDAM on an insurgent safe house, burn it down. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2007-03-20 19:54 |
| #5 Assuming these were there own children. They could easily have been Christian children kidnapped for this purpose. Whose children and where they came from matters not the least. That innocents are so cheerfully hurled into the furnace damns Islam to eternal Hell. I'll echo what Old Spook said. When Islam has committed their final stupendous atrocity and the West is teetering in indecision upon the brink of a massive nuclear retaliation, it is heinous acts of this sort that will serve to disinhibit those who must make the choice. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-03-20 19:41 |
| #4 Disgusting and so clear. Why we don't fire the ex-CNN producer Larry Register of Al-Hurra and keep pumping this kind of stuff out is inexcusable |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-03-20 19:29 |
| #3 Assuming these were there own children. They could easily have been Christian children kidnapped for this purpose. Whatever the case: I demand a Holy Crusade. I mean this literally. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-03-20 19:24 |
| #2 "Children in the back seat lowered suspicion. We let it move through. They parked the vehicle, and the adults ran out and detonated it with the children in the back," Islam devours its young. Few, if any, other cultures display such rapacious capacity. This one predisposition must simultaneously distinguish and utterly condemn Islam as being wholly inimical to human life. It remains an eternal mystery how a culture of such violence has persisted for so long without extinguishing itself. I can only suppose that Islam's longevity is stark testimony to how badly other cultures routinely underestimate its predatory and parasitic nature. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-03-20 18:40 |
| #1 Ah more courage fromthe Lions of Islam. If ever a case is made for their extermination, this will be entered into evidence for the cowardice and sadism Islamist display. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-03-20 18:28 |