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Iraq Bombers Blow Up 2 Children Used as Decoys (NYT)
The NY Times ^ | March 21, 2007 | Kirk Semple

Posted on 03/20/2007 9:05:17 PM PDT by summer

BAGHDAD, March 20 — Insurgents detonated a bomb in a car with two children in it after using the children as decoys to get through a military checkpoint in Baghdad, an American general said Tuesday.

Speaking at a news briefing at the Pentagon, Maj. Gen. Michael Barbaro, deputy director for regional operations at the Joint Staff, said American soldiers had stopped the car at the checkpoint but had allowed it to pass after seeing the two children in the back seat.

“Children in the back seat lower suspicion,” he said, according to a transcript. “We let it move through. They parked the vehicle. The adults run out and detonate it with the children in back.”


General Barbaro offered no further details...

Agence France-Presse, quoting an unidentified American military official, said the incident occurred Sunday. The bombers parked the vehicle across the street from a school then ran away, leaving the children inside, the official told the news agency. The blast killed the children and three other civilians and wounded seven, the official said...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: globaljihad; iraq; islamonazism; jihad; terroristbombing; whywefight; yourjobiniraq
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To: DungeonMaster

Well, it was in the NYT. I think that counts as MSM.


41 posted on 03/21/2007 6:08:14 AM PDT by summer
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To: DungeonMaster

Although, you're probably right - some media will ignore it.


42 posted on 03/21/2007 6:08:50 AM PDT by summer
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To: DungeonMaster

And the reason they'll ignore it is because news like this does change public opinion.


43 posted on 03/21/2007 6:09:27 AM PDT by summer
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To: summer
And the reason they'll ignore it is because news like this does change public opinion.

Definitely. I can't imagine ABC evening news showing this. I suppose the people that think we are in a quagmire will feel they are right when people are blowing up children to kill Americans. But people that think terrorists are a threat to the US will feel that this proves they are right.

44 posted on 03/21/2007 6:13:00 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.)
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To: Calpernia; Domandred
And we wonder if they'll kill our children?
45 posted on 03/21/2007 6:23:16 AM PDT by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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To: AnnaZ
Seeds of Hatred
46 posted on 03/21/2007 6:41:56 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: summer

Describing the terrorists as Barbarians is an insult to Barbarism, the terrorists are worst than Wild Beasts and must be annihilated from the planet.


47 posted on 03/21/2007 6:52:42 AM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: summer

Kind of like how our liberals pushed the kids up front at the anti-USA rallies to deface public property >>> http://photos-997.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v64/140/6/65201211/n65201211_30340997_4004.jpg

Obviously, a large difference in degree but the same perverse thinking.


48 posted on 03/21/2007 7:15:40 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: summer

We should pull out immediately that the children did not die in vain (/sarc)


49 posted on 03/21/2007 7:27:36 AM PDT by Live free or die
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To: IslandJeff
Will someone please report this? These were innocent children - do Democrats REALLY need power that badly?

Its not a matter of NEED but GREED for POWER to force their evil liberal lifestyles on the American people and the world.

Y'know their lifestyle & ideology that says the traditional Judea-Christian beliefs IS unacceptable, Gays are the highest evolved humans and therefore it MUST be mandatory to be imposed on even 3 year old kids and in all schools even to the University level, that America is an inherently evil country hellbent on worldwide imperialism and therefore Democrat leaders must find ways to cripple the Military by forcing the Gay issue (and so destroy it from withing) and in all ongoing military operations to grab Defeat from the jaws of Victory.

In short America is to be immolated & humiliated esp with Bush in the White House. If and when a Liberal/RINO/Democrat takes the Presidency then in their thinking, suddenly America will be the better for it.

50 posted on 03/21/2007 8:39:45 AM PDT by prophetic
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To: AnnaZ
And we wonder if they'll kill our children?

Oh I have no doubts of it. My wife is now pregnant with our first child. She is all thinking about cribs, clothes, diapers, etc etc.

I'm thinking now I have no excuse not to take my families security as first priority.

51 posted on 03/21/2007 9:23:43 AM PDT by Domandred
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To: summer

How tragic is that? Blowing up children? Hope hell has a real hotspot for these people and that God will have mercy on these children. It's hard to believe that human beings could do this to their kids but then, these people are hardly human anymore, are they?


52 posted on 03/21/2007 11:29:50 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

they probably would have grown up in a hate filled society and martyred themselves at some point anyway. Sad, but true.


53 posted on 03/21/2007 11:30:58 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: summer

They're like our American liberals - they made a "choice."


54 posted on 03/22/2007 10:08:12 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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