Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Baby boom, Qaeda style
(A)dults in a vehicle with two children in the backseat ... parked next to a market in the Adamiya area of Baghdad, abandoned the vehicle and detonated it with the children still inside.
Perhaps it confirms that the surge is really working (see US General Petreus's comments in the post two below this one), terrorists now 'having' to resort to ever more desperate measures to evade scrutiny at checkpoints.
"Children in the back seat, lower suspicion, we let it move through," said Maj. Gen. Michael Barbero, deputy director for regional operations in the Joint Staff at the Pentagon.
WSJ's James Taranto points out that, in the Reuters dispatch from which these comments are extracted :
Reuters calls the attackers "insurgents" and the attack a "militant" one, but nowhere does the word terrorist appear.
Creatively evil carnage of the above type, inflicted by "insurgents" like these, accounts of course for almost all "war"-related death in Iraq. Take note "anti-war" protesters.
