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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/16278831
Disabled child in suicide attack
31 January 2005
Terrorists used a disabled child as a suicide bomber on election day, Iraqi interior minister Falah al-Naqib said today.
In all, 44 people were killed in a total of 38 bomb attacks on polling stations. Police at the scene of one the Baghdad blasts said the bomber appeared to have Down's syndrome.
Mr Al-Naqib praised an Iraqi citizen who was killed while preventing one suicide bomber from reaching a crowd of people outside a polling station.
Such is our enemy.
Rumor has it, war is .
That is not war.
Then what is it?
You're right, it's not war. It's evil, pure and simple.
Sending a disabled child with explosives to kill your own countrymen is not war.
No, it's terrorism.
War is killing and sick as it is it is weapon of a different kind.
Suckwads. This is probably the only case, ever, where the suicide bomber actually DID go to heaven. Perhaps this awful act was a sign that the tide is turning, and they can no longer find insane, able bodied "people" to do these things.
I agree, and I hope so. For all of the terrible things I've heard of them doing, this surpasses the worst of them.
I think it's more a case of the defenses knowing who to look for now. But they never would have picked out a Down's kid.
I don' think of that as really war anymore. The people who set that up are killing their own neighbors. They are fighting for their own power, not for their own people.
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Unspeakable...
So, any port in a storm, eh Commander? You think this is a legitimate military tactic?
And, here I was amazing you in another thread.
Okay, I take exception to the use of the term "suicide."
I guess you've all forgotten the bombings of the 70's when they used to strap them onto baby carriages (with babies in them) and roll them into airports and such.
These people aren't any more de able than they've always been. It's time to STFU about Bush's foreign policy and let loose the dogs of war to finish this sub-human beast of a species once and for all.
I hope you mean terrorist.
dont be surprised if he didnt
I'm probably going to catch a lot of flack for this post, but that's never stopped me from posting things like this in the past.
It is war. What people here don't understand, is how horrible war actually is. They also don't understand the desperation felt by people in that culture who feel that they have no other effective means of fighting their enemy.
Calling it evil is a cop out. They call things done in this country evil all of the time, and many of you would never agree with that. In our culture, this is horrendous, and I don't deny that. But the people of that region were not the first to come up with suicide attacks.
The Japanese used in in WW2 , and I don't recall it being given the label of terrorism then. It has been glamourized in war fiction here in the US. You can all think of one movie or piece of literature where a soldier carries out an attack where he knows he is going to die beforehand but is willing to do so for the cause.
It's only semantics either way. Whatever you call it here isn't going to change the perception of the people on the ground. But quite honestly, I don't see it as terrorism.
And before anyone accuses me of condoning it, I don't. I don't condone the bombing the US does that ends up with innocent lives being lost needlessly either. However, I do believe that when people continue to label these people as evil they fail to fundementaly understand what has driven them to these extremes and instead place the reasoning for their actions on the notion that these people are fundementally worse than the average "good" human being.
Manny, it was a kid with Down's Syndrome...that's not suicide. That's exploitation...evil, de able, vomit-worthy exploitation.
And, as for your last paragraph, there's a difference between collateral damage suffered in a legitimate act of war (not to start an argument on the legitimacy of this war - I think we all know where we all stand) and deliberately selecting the weak and infirm to serve as "suicide" bombers.
Your efforts at moral equivalency are astonishing.
Ok, the child could obviously not make the decision for himself, so I do believe it was exploitation. But I defeinetly feel that if you can find a side free of exploitative behavior in a war, including this one, you simply are ignoring obvious instances.
Actually, the above post was mostly directed at the notion of calling all suicide bombers evil and using the word terrorist to somehow signifiy their acts as less justified as those of any other waring party.
Manny, these guys are bombing their own countrymen/women/children in an effort to intimidate them. This is not just your average run of the mill act of war. As far as I know, (I'm not a history scholar, mind you) the Japanese did not kamikaze their own people. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Jane,
Desperate actions of desperate people. Not the evil actions of evil people.
BTW, The Japanse did have huge mass suicides where I'm sure they forced their own people to die. It's part of their culture, and it doesn't make them evil.
I think there is a huge misunderstanding in this country about the actions of other cultures. While understanding doesn't make the actions any easier to swallow, it does bring things into a different light.
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