Iraqi insurgents used two children as a cover to get through a checkpoint in Baghdad and then blew up the car while the kids were still inside, a U.S. general said Tuesday.(Hat-tip: Jihad Watch)Two adults jumped from the car, leaving the children in the back. Moments later, the car exploded, witnesses said.
The car went through a checkpoint Sunday and parked by a market across the street from a school, said Maj. Gen. Michael Barbero, deputy director for regional operations in the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The two children and three bystanders died in the blast, and seven others were hurt, Pentagon officials said.
The attack raises concerns that insurgents are trying a new tactic: using children to throw off troops, Barbero said.
"Children in the back seat lower suspicion. We let it move through," he said.
Barbero and Pentagon officials said this is the only attack of its kind they have seen.
A U.N. report released in January highlighted insurgents' use of children as suicide bombers in Iraq.
Suicide bombing - killing yourself to indiscriminately slaughter your enemies - is despicable enough. But is there anything lower than using your children as decoys, and then blowing them up, while you run to safety?
3 comments:
Thats horrendous. I wonder if they were their kids or just some unfortunate waifs and strays.
Goes to show what evil we are fighting though.
Keep it coming FR; this Re-primitivisation of the West is leaking out drip by drip, so that sooner or later the msm and their craven leaders et al, will finally realise that a religion of death and destruction, given time, will eventually engulf them as well.
Here Here...roll on that day!
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