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  • Iraq insurgents used children in car bombing: general

    03/20/2007 2:23:42 PM PDT · by WmShirerAdmirer · 45 replies · 1,444+ views
    Associated Press via Yahoo.news.com ^ | March 20, 2007 | Jim Mannion
    WASHINGTON (AFP) - Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday. The vehicle was stopped at the checkpoint but was allowed through when soldiers saw the children in the back, said Major General Michael Barbero of the Pentagon's Joint Staff. "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. The general said...