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| Terrorists tie bomb belt to dog in Iraq |
| 2005-05-27 |
| Insurgents in Iraq attached explosives to a dog and tried to blow up a military convoy near the northern oil centre of Kirkuk. The canine bomb went off but the only casualty was the unfortunate animal, said police. The militants wrapped an explosive belt around the dog and detonated it as the convoy passed through Dakuk, 25 miles south of Kirkuk, said the town's police chief, Col Mohammed Barzaji. "The dog was torn apart by the explosion which caused neither injury among the soldiers nor any damage." Col Barzaji said the bomb had been detonated outside a Shia mosque. "Eight suspects have been detained." Are they implying Shiias were responsible? This was not the first time that animals have been used in insurgent attacks. In 2003, donkey carts were used to conceal makeshift multiple rocket launchers in a flurry of attacks in Baghdad. Animal carcasses and human corpses have been used to conceal explosives. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #25 think theren mucha marcket for jihadi choo toys? oh. an what fred an steve said. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-05-27 21:27 |
| #24 What 21 said. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-05-27 19:00 |
| #23 another reason to show the proper respect to ME culture /grim sarcasm |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-05-27 18:28 |
| #22 I agree with you #21. I'm not a PETA member, but I am totally repulsed by the terrorists' abuse of a dog for precisely the reasons you cite. Dogs love us, they love to please us in any way. They are the Norman Rockwell symbols of civilized society. This dog likely willingly tried to please these scumbags for a few scraps of bread. I'm sorry but there's something very very sick about a society that abuses dogs. And even the best of Muslim societies are not very kind to dogs. I recall reading a few months ago that security work dogs that were given to the Iraqi police were systematically starved, some died. |
| Posted by: Flomonter Thinemp3876 2005-05-27 18:25 |
| #21 These "animals" are using one of mankind's most loyal, loving, and courageous friends to do their dirty work. They are less than dogs. The dogs I have had in my life make these "things" lower than what my dogs left on the lawn. For 50 thousand years dogs have been our species' most true and loyal friends. To treat them this way, to lower them in this manner, is to profane their own religion. We are a dogs' religion. They adore us as masters. They deserve a helluva' lot better than what they get. |
| Posted by: LC FOTSGreg 2005-05-27 17:53 |
| #20 the koran must be taken at its literal word. Traditions of interpretation have no authority as such. Sole Scriptura!!!!!! |
| Posted by: Martin al-Luther 2005-05-27 14:50 |
| #19 Muslims bear much of the responsibility for the "root causes" such as they are, as well. Allan is a backwards-flowing river of blood if you take the Koran at its' word. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-05-27 14:37 |
| #18 Matt - was that barber the same one as Al-Suini Tahd? Don't be too complacent. |
| Posted by: thibaud (aka lex) 2005-05-27 14:26 |
| #17 Well, I started going to an Iraqi barber in about March 2003. I admit to some initial apprehension about his possession of sharp implements near my neck, but he turned out to be a good guy. |
| Posted by: Matt 2005-05-27 14:02 |
| #16 Add my voice to that, Mrs. D. and like Steve, I too know some decent and good Muslims. |
| Posted by: rkb 2005-05-27 13:56 |
| #15 Steve, I agree with everything you said, except that it is we who have to whack the Islamists hard. I would suggest it is our Muslim friends who bear the primary responsibility for that. And the Iraqi armed forces seem to be starting. When the whole story of this conflict is told I hope we will learn how our domestic Muslim firends will have done their own part as well. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-05-27 13:51 |
| #14 What Fred said. We should never forget two important news items: 1) 95% of the world's Muslims are decent people who are just trying to make a life. 2) 95% of the world's suicide bombers right now are Islamists. There's the distinction. Yes, some Muslims are fanatical fascists. Fred's notation of 'national socialim' is quite apt for all the reasons we've talked about here before. These Islamofascists are the danger to us, and they've been infecting some, but only some, of their religious brethen these past few decades. I work with several Muslims and know several others rather well in my profession. They're as decent a people as you'd ever want to meet. I'd stand up for them any day. It's the Islamists we have to whack hard, not the Muslims. I hope we never forget that. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2005-05-27 13:38 |
| #13 Dogs - why do they hate us? |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-05-27 12:34 |
| #12 Fred: well said. Hopefully, whoever did this will have a few things done to him that, well, shouldn't happen to a dog. |
| Posted by: Mike 2005-05-27 12:14 |
| #11 mmmm...72 virgins - that's 144 legs to hump |
| Posted by: bman 2005-05-27 12:12 |
| #10 72 bitches, surely, dirty as he likes. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2005-05-27 12:10 |
| #9 Nope, radrh8r, dogs are infidels. ;) |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2005-05-27 12:03 |
| #8 Is the dog entitled to 72 virgins then...? |
| Posted by: radrh8r 2005-05-27 11:49 |
| #7 #5: I'd not go nearly that far. Kurds are Muslims. Afghans -- including the non-Taliban Afghans -- are Muslims. There are lots of people throughout the Middle East and North Africa who're both Muslim and trying to drag their countries out of the stagnation that's been the result of the fatal combination of National Socialism and Olde Tyme Religion that's made them into cultural and social backwaters. Many of them are even Arabs. Islam as a religion has its faults, and they are many and must be worked out. But our problem is Islamism as an ideology: wahhabism pureed with qutbism and its Deobandi analogues in South Asia. |
| Posted by: Fred 2005-05-27 11:26 |
| #6 FILTHY INFIDEL BEAST!!!! |
| Posted by: Achmed Al-Pussy 2005-05-27 11:08 |
| #5 At least no one was killed. Shame about the pooch. Dogs are more moral and valuable than Moslems. I'd save Cami or Katrina rather than a Moslem. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-05-27 11:05 |
| #4 there a report of this at Hammorabi's blog (http://hammorabi.blogspot.com/) Hammorabi also reports on a citizen's group that hung some terrorists |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-05-27 11:04 |
| #3 Now they're using dogs, huh? What happened...did they run out of mental retards? |
| Posted by: Mark Z. 2005-05-27 10:52 |
| #2 I await with breathless anticipation a condemnation of this heartless exploitation of a helpless mutt from the PETA spokesperson... |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2005-05-27 10:34 |
| #1 Blowing themselves up is a good thing. In fact I strongly encourage it (although I really wish they would do so in a empty field somewhere so they would not hurt innocent bystanders), but this is disgusting, even for a muslim. |
| Posted by: Michael 2005-05-27 10:27 |