Wednesday, March 21, 2007
A new low for someone
From the NY Times:
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.So now the thugs have sunk to their lowest point ever. But are they the bomb thugs or the propaganda thugs?
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.
Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a top American military spokesman in Baghdad, said late Tuesday that his office had no record of the bombing but that it was researching it. “I don’t know what event he’s talking about,” Colonel Garver said.
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Later the story was updated: the "children" were actually dummies, decoys, not real human children.
Sigh. War is hell.
- Badtux the un-warlike Penguin
Sigh. War is hell.
- Badtux the un-warlike Penguin
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