Iraq insurgents used children in car bombing: general

Associated Press via Yahoo.news.com ^ | March 20, 2007 | Jim Mannion

[maica]

"Children in the back seat lowered suspicion. We let it move through. They parked the vehicle, and the adults ran out and detonated it with the children in the back," Barbero said.


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And yet when our troops come home with PTSD, somehow it is Bush's fault. This item should have been on every newscast today. It could have followed the report of a successful search by all available people for one boy scout lost in woods.

[driftless2]

Whether we torture Al-Qaeda terrorists, oh excuse me insurgents, or not does not concern me in the slightest. When I read reports like this, my concern about their welfare in Gitmo or other prisons drops to less than zero.

[Enchante]

"We have conclusively seen the peak of what Al Qaeda can mount and maintain in Iraq. This is highly valuable statistical information. It shows the limits of their ability to project power."

Good point - that's what's most encouraging about the past few weeks, that when Al Qaeda was desperate to increase its attacks and encourage the treason media in the west, they have been completely unable to do so. If this is the best they can do now, there's good reason to expect the surge will work better and better so long as we don't let up. To hell with the Treasoncrats and Weasel Media!

[Dick Bachert]

Get ready for these sorts of events HERE once we pull out and these nutjobs get their s**t back together.

Thank you Pelosi, et al!

[SandRat]

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Or if they do report it, without the anti-War Agenda Spin!

[Marine_Uncle]

Agree in full. And before you started to provide stats some months back, I held the same opinion. It was only a matter of time when more elements in the Iraqi fabric, such as we finally are reading about, e.g. al Anbar tribes going after AQIR, start to emerge. The tide has changed. The day of Islamist radicalism in Iraq will ebb to the point it will be extinguished for the most part. They have played their cards totally wrong, and most Iraqi of all pursuasions fear them.

[prairiebreeze]

I simply CANNOT understand why the Libs continue to defend these absolute blights on humanity.

First of all, because our drive-by media won't air stories such as this, which would force the RATS to be accountable.

And, because the libs honestly don't care that people are getting hurt. They don't care about the children, despite what they claim. All they care about is whether they have power or not.

Human life is very expendable to liberals. Even innocent civilian American human life.

[prairiebreeze]

grim reminder ping

[freema]

ping

[Peach]

Oh, no. So our military is going to have to treat ALL vehicles, even those with children, as potential explosive devices.

Imagine using children. Evil. Evil. Evil.

[pinz-n-needlez]

Sad but accurate observation, SB. Suffer the little children indeed. :-(

[Southack]

What you and I have seen and pointed out is valuable, but the other side of the coin is that we have cultural factors working against those statistical facts.

Arabs have ingrained a culture of lying and "loyalty" into their society that worked for propping up small tribes, but that is counter-productive to large-scale society-enhancement at the national level.

What we're doing in Iraq is changing entire cultures...a hard roe to hoe, but necessary. The tribal culture was stagnating the Middle-East...but now they are learning to criticize (read: improve) their own leaders such as their president rather than continue to play the public suck-up game (among other things).

[golfisnr1]

Hams is doing the same.

[golfisnr1]

Hamas

[ViLaLuz]

It's an Islamic post natal abortion.

[DilJective]

That's about as low as you can get. Murdering little babies! What a despicable, shameful act Religion!

Just a little editing to make it more accurate.

[Marine_Uncle]

And some day they will give high praise to George W. Bush for having the guts to do what had to be done. Things with many facets only a small portion of people appear to understand at present.
I am reaching the point where I almost feel honored having connected with this web site. I consider myself a somewhat free thinker, willing to give and take, but not trust till verified.
Perhaps if I had not stumbled onto FR or the number of other web sites affiliated and referenced over the past few years I to may have still been in the dark for the most part, simply for lack of many small bits of info that weaved together with some dicipline can yield some rather surprising conclusions not considered possible by the so called experts that guide the opinions of the masses.
All indicators point to a unified Iraq in the not so distant future. One where all the provincal governments will work with the federal government to improve all parts of Iraq for the betterment of Iraq as a whole.
I for one do not ignore the continued pressures Islam in general will press on the peoples. But Iraq is not full of radical muslims.
Not all Arabs buy into the bull shit found in the Quran. Most hardly know what it contains from an intellectual standpoint. As kids they become parrots learned in recital, but really do not understand the deep problems the cult's books contain. The radical muslims blowing up their kids and wives have been an eye opener. I am sure the majority of them will opt for a peacefull democratic country verse a muslim caliph state or another Saddam.

[Marine_Uncle]

post #37.

[ChessExpert]

I think I could fill a book with stories like this. Although most cases are in the middle east, some can be found around the world, including the United States. The press is generally loath to report, much less condemn.

It brings to mind the "moral equivalence" the press tried to present between communists and America. Between Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot, the communists murdered considerably more than 100 million people. A comparable toll by the US would be zero million. Yet they were treated as about the same. Numbers help cut through the adjectives used in a misleading and willful manner.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Bump from a sad granny.