Children 'used in suicide attacks'
A US general today said Iraqi insurgents used children in a suicide attack this weekend, raising worries that the insurgency has adopted a new tactic to get through security checkpoints with bombs.
Major General Michael Barbero, deputy director for regional operations in the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, said adults in a vehicle with two children in the backseat were allowed through a Baghdad checkpoint. The adults then abandoned the vehicle and detonated it with the children still inside, he said.
"Children in the backseat lower suspicion, we let it move through," he said. "They parked the vehicle, the adults run out and detonate it with the children in the back."
i've often wondered...what would it take to finally get it on? i bet we'll never truly "go to work" in iraq. however, i do see if this keeps up (along w/ chlorine bombs), it could be a tipping point for us. Targets seem to be too few & too dynamically defined for shock-and-awe, which should come as precisely no surprise to anyone reading this & hopefully on the gov't payroll.
reports like this, on days like today, all the pom-pom waving at michelle malkin & black five seem to grow strangely dim.
A US general today said Iraqi insurgents used children in a suicide attack this weekend, raising worries that the insurgency has adopted a new tactic to get through security checkpoints with bombs.
Major General Michael Barbero, deputy director for regional operations in the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, said adults in a vehicle with two children in the backseat were allowed through a Baghdad checkpoint. The adults then abandoned the vehicle and detonated it with the children still inside, he said.
"Children in the backseat lower suspicion, we let it move through," he said. "They parked the vehicle, the adults run out and detonate it with the children in the back."
i've often wondered...what would it take to finally get it on? i bet we'll never truly "go to work" in iraq. however, i do see if this keeps up (along w/ chlorine bombs), it could be a tipping point for us. Targets seem to be too few & too dynamically defined for shock-and-awe, which should come as precisely no surprise to anyone reading this & hopefully on the gov't payroll.
reports like this, on days like today, all the pom-pom waving at michelle malkin & black five seem to grow strangely dim.
