Someone justify this to me please..
I can't wrap my semi-rational thoughts around ths..
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The attack, in a poor, predominantly Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, left a wrenching scene of bloodshed, anger and despair Wednesday.
Children's colored slippers, pieces of flesh and shrapnel were strewed around a wide crater in the street. Women wailed and slapped themselves on the chest and face in a ritual of grief as bodies were placed in crude coffins and carried away.
A suicide bomber had steered his vehicle toward a group of children who had crowded around a patrol of U.S. troops and detonated his payload, killing at least 27 people, nearly all of them children, government and hospital officials said. One U.S. soldier was killed.
Several residents said the Americans had been handing out candy when the attack took place. ``They were delivering some sweets and toys to the children, and all of a sudden a car drove toward the U.S. military vehicles and exploded,'' said Basim al-Gaiedi, 45, an engineer who lives in the neighborhood.
But Lt. Col. Clifford Kent, the public-affairs officer for the 3rd Infantry Division, which is responsible for overall security in Baghdad, denied that the soldiers had been distributing candy and toys. He would not disclose the nature of the unit's mission Wednesday.
Residents said U.S. soldiers had passed through the neighborhood earlier in the day issuing warnings through a loudspeaker that the area might be a target of a car bomb.
Kent disputed the residents' accounts and said the military had no knowledge of a planned car bomb attack. ``To say that in that neighborhood, at that time, on this day there was going to be this kind of attack, it's very rare to have pinpoint intelligence like that,'' he said.
The attack caused the highest death toll among children since a similar incident in September when a pair of car bombs killed at least 34 children who were waiting to receive handfuls of candy from U.S. soldiers at the inauguration of a sewage plant in western Baghdad.
Convoys of U.S. soldiers regularly patrol Baghdad's neighborhoods, sometimes as displays of force though also to conduct house searches and arrests. They frequently pause to give sweets and gifts to children as a goodwill gesture.
A representative of the 3rd Infantry Division, Master Sgt. Greg Kaufman, said there was no official policy regarding large crowds of people around patrol vehicles. Asked why the military would allow such gatherings, particularly given the lack of security in Baghdad and the repeated suicide attacks, Kaufman said, ``I really do not have an answer to that one.'' Higher-ranking military officials in Baghdad were not available late Wednesday for comment.
While the Interior Ministry put the death toll at 25, all children, the officer who patrolled the morgue at Kindi Hospital, where most of the dead were taken, had a list of 39 names in his hand, Knight Ridder reported. Some were teenagers, some were as young as 6, he said. Families had claimed the bodies of 25 children; 14 were unrecognizable.
Residents in the neighborhood, called Baghdad al-Jedida, said the death toll could rise. One witness said the blast had destroyed part of a house, killing a family that was eating breakfast in the yard. Another witness said four laborers resting on the side of the road were also killed.
``The car bomber made a deliberate decision to attack one of our vehicles as the soldiers were engaged in a peaceful operation with Iraqi citizens,'' said Maj. Russ Goemaere, a U.S. military official in Baghdad. ``The terrorist undoubtedly saw the children around the Humvee as he attacked.''
The attack came on another day of violence across Iraq and mounting accusations of sectarian attacks.
Can someone please explain to me how these people can be called "insurgents" or anything less than animals and terrorist. I fail to see how blowing up 27 children will make your faction get any support. What rational person can not now see these are not people in the common sense but animals, and animals must be put down lke animals. I volunteer to be the one to pull the trigger on them and could do so without any hesitation. People who do what these terrorist are doing are the lowest form of life and that form of life needs to be exterminated. Period.
Children's colored slippers, pieces of flesh and shrapnel were strewed around a wide crater in the street. Women wailed and slapped themselves on the chest and face in a ritual of grief as bodies were placed in crude coffins and carried away.
A suicide bomber had steered his vehicle toward a group of children who had crowded around a patrol of U.S. troops and detonated his payload, killing at least 27 people, nearly all of them children, government and hospital officials said. One U.S. soldier was killed.
Several residents said the Americans had been handing out candy when the attack took place. ``They were delivering some sweets and toys to the children, and all of a sudden a car drove toward the U.S. military vehicles and exploded,'' said Basim al-Gaiedi, 45, an engineer who lives in the neighborhood.
But Lt. Col. Clifford Kent, the public-affairs officer for the 3rd Infantry Division, which is responsible for overall security in Baghdad, denied that the soldiers had been distributing candy and toys. He would not disclose the nature of the unit's mission Wednesday.
Residents said U.S. soldiers had passed through the neighborhood earlier in the day issuing warnings through a loudspeaker that the area might be a target of a car bomb.
Kent disputed the residents' accounts and said the military had no knowledge of a planned car bomb attack. ``To say that in that neighborhood, at that time, on this day there was going to be this kind of attack, it's very rare to have pinpoint intelligence like that,'' he said.
The attack caused the highest death toll among children since a similar incident in September when a pair of car bombs killed at least 34 children who were waiting to receive handfuls of candy from U.S. soldiers at the inauguration of a sewage plant in western Baghdad.
Convoys of U.S. soldiers regularly patrol Baghdad's neighborhoods, sometimes as displays of force though also to conduct house searches and arrests. They frequently pause to give sweets and gifts to children as a goodwill gesture.
A representative of the 3rd Infantry Division, Master Sgt. Greg Kaufman, said there was no official policy regarding large crowds of people around patrol vehicles. Asked why the military would allow such gatherings, particularly given the lack of security in Baghdad and the repeated suicide attacks, Kaufman said, ``I really do not have an answer to that one.'' Higher-ranking military officials in Baghdad were not available late Wednesday for comment.
While the Interior Ministry put the death toll at 25, all children, the officer who patrolled the morgue at Kindi Hospital, where most of the dead were taken, had a list of 39 names in his hand, Knight Ridder reported. Some were teenagers, some were as young as 6, he said. Families had claimed the bodies of 25 children; 14 were unrecognizable.
Residents in the neighborhood, called Baghdad al-Jedida, said the death toll could rise. One witness said the blast had destroyed part of a house, killing a family that was eating breakfast in the yard. Another witness said four laborers resting on the side of the road were also killed.
``The car bomber made a deliberate decision to attack one of our vehicles as the soldiers were engaged in a peaceful operation with Iraqi citizens,'' said Maj. Russ Goemaere, a U.S. military official in Baghdad. ``The terrorist undoubtedly saw the children around the Humvee as he attacked.''
The attack came on another day of violence across Iraq and mounting accusations of sectarian attacks.
Can someone please explain to me how these people can be called "insurgents" or anything less than animals and terrorist. I fail to see how blowing up 27 children will make your faction get any support. What rational person can not now see these are not people in the common sense but animals, and animals must be put down lke animals. I volunteer to be the one to pull the trigger on them and could do so without any hesitation. People who do what these terrorist are doing are the lowest form of life and that form of life needs to be exterminated. Period.
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