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Attempt to Slaughter Iraqi Schoolgirls Discovered |
2007-05-04 |
American soldiers discovered a girls school being built north of Baghdad had become an explosives-rigged "death trap," the U.S. military said Thursday. The plot at the Huda Girls' school in Tarmiya was a "sophisticated and premeditated attempt to inflict massive casualties on our most innocent victims," military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said. The military suspects the plot was the work of al Qaeda, because of its nature and sophistication, Caldwell said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer. The plot was uncovered Saturday, when troopers in the Salaheddin province found detonating wire across the street from the school. They picked up the wire and followed its trail, which led to the school. Once inside, they found an explosive-filled propane tank buried beneath the floor. There were artillery shells built into the ceiling and floor, and another propane tank was found, the military said. The wire was concealed with mortar and concrete, and the propane tanks had been covered with brick and hidden underneath the floor, according to a military statement. Soldiers were able to clear the building. "It was truly just an incredibly ugly, dirty kind of vicious killing that would have gone on here," Caldwell said. Iraqi contractors were responsible for building the school, which was intended to bring in hundreds of girls. "Given the care and work put into emplacing this IED, it is likely it had been planned for a long time" and it is thought that "the IED was not intended to be set off until the building was occupied," the military said. Authorities intend to question the Iraqis involved in the school's construction. |
Posted by:Anonymoose |
#19 Another construction project brought to you by The Brave Lions of Islam™. This is on a par with those infants being left inside of the car bomb. There is only one way to end this sort of behavior and it does not involve education. |
Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-04 17:37 |
#18 Education is AQ's worst enemy. They are probably most particulary afraid of girls becoming educated. It'll suck real bad for them when all the little girls calls bullshit. All the more reason for those schools to be built and protected. |
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-05-04 15:20 |
#17 Michael Moore called them "Minute Men". British generals ask us to "understand" their motives. The sooner this plague cult is eradicated the better. Root and branch. Salt the earth. |
Posted by: Excalibur 2007-05-04 14:56 |
#16 what tu said. and also the contractors supervisory staff. this was not a bottle rocket. |
Posted by: USN. Ret. 2007-05-04 14:33 |
#15 What's the problem? Just more presents from allan. allan's snackbar!! Heil mo-ham-head!! |
Posted by: anymouse 2007-05-04 11:50 |
#14 We are brave mujadin. Really, we are. |
Posted by: The Twelfth Imam 2007-05-04 10:32 |
#13 Herd the boys in to admire their work, connect the wires, push the button. Anybody walks out, shoot 'em. |
Posted by: tu3031 2007-05-04 09:35 |
#12 Now if our boys were back home, turning their backs on the Iraqi situation per democrat dogma, these poor souls would have been blown to hell with great suffering, and the MSM would say 'see the mess Bush left in Iraq.' |
Posted by: wxjames 2007-05-04 09:25 |
#11 The contractors should be put in crows cages in Baghdad proper. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2007-05-04 09:22 |
#10 "It was truly just an incredibly ugly, dirty kind of vicious killing that would have gone on here," Caldwell said. Typically Muslim. Is there some other kind.....? |
Posted by: Besoeker 2007-05-04 07:24 |
#9 As Captain Lewis points out, there is also a growing virgin shortage in paradise. This may end up being a stimulus to promiscuous activity as well. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-05-04 07:09 |
#8 What's the big deal? they were just going to kill some women. Now, if they were to kill some of our beautiful boys -- that'd be an outrage! Besides, those girls would be better off being sent directly to paradise. *attempting to channel a islamo* |
Posted by: Captain Lewis 2007-05-04 06:59 |
#7 Google news shows an astounding 23 articles on this, including the one master article from the UPI. Perhaps the US should begin using this kind of tactic on a Title IX basis in Pakistani madrassas if it can be done so covertly. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-05-04 06:36 |
#6 I'm sure Harry Ried and John Murtha are disappointed. |
Posted by: Mike 2007-05-04 06:22 |
#5 Nobody hold your breath for condemnation from the human rights industry. |
Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-05-04 05:51 |
#4 Authorities intend to question the Iraqis involved in the school's construction There is no fuc&ing way that every single one of the regular contractor knew what was going on. |
Posted by: gorb 2007-05-04 03:42 |
#3 Absolute scum. |
Posted by: Howard UK 2007-05-04 03:21 |
#2 Make sure it's the Iraqi authorities who question them. And include a few of the intended victims' large male relatives as "questioners." |
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-05-04 00:09 |
#1 Authorities intend to question the Iraqis involved in the school's construction. And them hang 'em. |
Posted by: GK 2007-05-04 00:07 |