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Iraq
Suicide bomber targets women, children in Baghdad park
2007-10-16
A suicide car bomber killed four people and wounded 25, mostly women and children, in a public park in western Baghdad on Monday, police said. The attack in the religiously mixed Harthiya district came on the final day of the Eid el-Fitr holiday, when many families had taken advantage of the improved security in the Iraqi capital and the good weather to venture outside.

Police said the bomber parked at the entrance to the garden and then blew himself up as families were leaving to go home at the end of the day. There was no claim of responsibility for the bombing but Sunni Islamist al Qaeda had vowed to step up attacks during the holy fasting month of Ramadan which preceded the Eid holiday.
Posted by:Fred

#6  I was in Baghdad in 2004 when they blew up that school yard full of school girls getting ready for final exams. The shock from the blast blew me out of bed.
My driver and I heard the sirens and ran to the scene. What a catastrophe and what a sickening display.
There was a lot of outrage at the bombing. Iraqs running by me would yell "We need you americans to protect us from these F.... foreigners." They were of the mind that no Iraqi would hard children. I think they were right.
I had a LTC tell me in March 2004 that they were killing more Iranians than Iraqis and they were killing a number of Czechnians. Funny to me that everyone gasps in amazement when Patreaus and the guys say Iran is causing problems. It was general knowledge in 2004.
We should have popped those guys during the elections or during the riots last year.
It is pathetic and sad that these neanderthals have to target the innocent and the defenseless. Much like they do in Isreal.
They play from the same play book everywhere.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2007-10-16 21:07  

#5  The Lions of IslamTM are relegated to murdering women and children. It appears that the evil infidel Army is just to powerful for allan. Some "god".
Posted by: anymouse   2007-10-16 17:32  

#4  "It will take many more heinous incidents like this in order for Muslims to finally notice the fact that they are chasing an ideological dead-end."

So AQI is left in a real difficult position - can they pull off enough such attacks to rally Congress to orchestrate a retreat before every Iraqi knows they are chasing an ideological dead-end?
Posted by: High Brow   2007-10-16 13:52  

#3  Terrorism, by its very nature tends to be indiscriminate. Unfortunately, so much of Islam is such a blood-soaked culture that most of their barbarous handiwork comes as no major surprise to any of them. It will take many more heinous incidents like this in order for Muslims to finally notice the fact that they are chasing an ideological dead-end.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-10-16 10:06  

#2  Those Lions of Islam need to wake up and smell The Feminists.
Posted by: doc   2007-10-16 08:18  

#1  Is this really going to help AQI achieve anything? Attacking US troops and accidentally killing others would potentially help them. Attaching Iraqi troops or police with collateral damage might help them in some cases. Attacking non-Muslim civilians would demonstrate their ruthlessness without significant blowback. Attacking a Shiite (or even Sunni) religious gathering might work towards their goal of inciting civil war. Attacking a mixed sectarian group of women and kids in a park? Are they drugging the bombers to the point where they can't tell kids in the park from cops at the station, and no longer qualify as an Islamic 'smart bomb'?
(I've figured it out! The Americans did it! They kidnapped and rigged some guy with a bomb and then used their mind control ray to make him blow himself up in the park in order to unite the people against AQI! And if I can figure this out then I am sure Kos can.)
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-10-16 08:01  

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