Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Rage
Insurgents? I have other labels in mind for those who perpetrate such atrocities.
- Twenty-four Iraqi children were killed by a suicide car bomber targeting U.S. soldiers as they handed out chocolates in a Baghdad neighborhood they had entered to warn of a possible attack.
Some 20 more children were wounded in the blast, while a U.S. soldier died and three were injured, hospital and U.S. sources said.
"Children gathered round the Americans who were handing out sweets. Suddenly a suicide car bomber drove round from a side street and blew himself up," Sergeant David Abrams told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
"The vehicle, laden with explosives, drove up to a [U.S. military] Humvee before detonating. Many Iraqi civilians, mostly children, were around the Humvee at the time of the blast," Abrams said.
Charred remains of an engine block wrapped in barbed wire sat in the road. A child's bicycle was crumpled beside the street, which was splattered with pools of blood, reports the Associated Press (AP).
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At the nearby Kindi hospital, hundreds of distraught parents mingled in blood-soaked hallways shouting and screaming as they looked for their children, many of whom were badly mutilated.
"Most of them are children. The Americans were handing out sweets at the time of the attack," a duty policeman at the Kindi Hospital said.
"We have received the bodies of 24 children aged between 10 and 13," said an official in charge of the morgue.
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Among the young bodies at the morgue, some headless or missing limbs, two children still clutched blue chocolate wrappers.
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"Why do they attack our children? They just destroyed one U.S. Humvee, but they killed dozens of our children," he said as women screamed, slapped their faces and beat themselves over the head.
"What sort of a resistance is this? It's a crime," he added.
At Kindi hospital, one distraught woman swathed in black sat cross-legged outside the operating room. "May God curse the mujahedeen and their leader," she cried as she pounded her own head in grief, reports the AP.
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