#1 "I hope that guard never wants for anything for the rest of his life."
Amen. Instead of the current sectarian wrangling, it would be far more productive and to the good of Iraq to institute some forms of recognition for those in the Iraqi police and armed forces who perform heroically, who do their jobs without political or sectarian motives. Who do The Right Thing.
Make it splashy, with TV presentations of medals, monetary awards, maybe even rename the school after the hero, for instance. This would provide some alternative motives, positive and unifying motives which are sorely lacking now. |
The Iraqi authorities on Tuesday arrested a suspected suicide bomber with Yemeni citizenship who was planning to blow up an elementary school in Baghdad, an interior ministry official announced. "A security guard at a school in Baghdad became suspicious of a person of strange appearance who was hanging around in the school exercise yard at the start of lessons," the chief of public security forces at the ministry, Mahdid Subayh told Adnkronos International (AKI). "The guard caught the man unawares and apprehended him before he had the chance to detonate the explosives belt he was wearing," Subayh said. "This terrorist wanted to blow himself amongst the children during their break from lesson," he added. He said he could not name the school guard or the school - for security reasons.