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2003-10-27 Iraq

booby trapped baby bomber in Bagdad thwarted

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Posted by mhw 2003-10-27 9:54:15 AM|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Murat -- this is the "resistance" you've been crowing about.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-10-27 10:06:10 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-10-27 10:06:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-27 10:14:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-27 10:26:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The Religon of Peace wishes everybody a Happy Ramadan!

Posted by tu3031 2003-10-27 10:30:07 AM|| 2003-10-27 10:30:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 pleeeeeease...I beg you....don't feed the troll.

Posted by B 2003-10-27 10:56:00 AM|| 2003-10-27 10:56:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-27 11:21:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-27 12:52:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-27 1:22:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 mwh - good point.

Posted by B 2003-10-27 1:26:27 PM|| 2003-10-27 1:26:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-27 6:32:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-27 7:49:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-28 4:03:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2003-10-28 4:35:22 AM|| Front Page Top

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