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Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Washington Post

Suicide bombs at a hospital where soldiers were handing out toys to children.

I know there's a lot of hostility between Shia and Sunni, but is that the motivation here that would make these people think that this was a good idea?

Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :

There isn't any logic to the terrorist’s attacks. It's just a matter of causing as much trauma as possible so we lose the public support. There is no other way those kinds of tactics could result in anything but negative consequences for Al-qaeda. They simply can't beat us militarily. The reason we need to stay in Iraq is to prevent this kind of indiscriminate killing and make the Middle East good for something besides exporting oil and anger.

Posted by Destineer (Member # 821) on :

Who says these guys had anything to do with Al Qaeda?

Posted by dantesparadigm (Member # 8756) on :

My apologies, I have no way of confirming whether or not the people involved in this particular attack were members of Al-Qaeda. However I think there's a pretty good chance they had support from some international terrorist organization. I certainly hope an Iraqi wouldn't do that to his own people.

Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :

Yeah, hearing about this attack made me feel pretty sick. What a horror.

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

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I certainly hope an Iraqi wouldn't do that to his own people.

There are enough ethnic and religious divisions (loosely, "tribal" divisions) in Iraq that one Iraqi citizen doing that to a group of Iraqi citizens could easily not see the latter as "his own people."

Either way -- Iraqi or foreign terrorist -- it's horrible. [Frown]

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

Oh, Muqtada al-Sadr wouldn't hesitate a second. He handed out replica assault rifles to children in Baghdad, in hope that they would be killed by UStroops so he could score propaganda points.
The US area commander was a bit too canny to fall for that nonsense, and instituted a toy and sports equipment exchange for those who turned in the "toy"guns.
So al-Sadr is more than miffed enough to wanna kill Baghdad children for preferring US toys.

And as the results of the ArabLeague-sponsored Iraqi leadership conference demonstrate, there are plenty of other "leaders" who share al-Sadr's disdain for the lives&aspirations of ordinary Iraqis.

Don't mistake cause and effect:
The insurgents' goal is to murder ordinary Iraqis to intimidate the survivors.
And UStroops are being killed as collateral damage for trying to protect those Iraqis.
Which is why the insurgents have murdered ~17times as many Iraqis for every Coalition soldier killed.

[ September 09, 2007, 07:52 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

Then there's head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Abdul Aziz Hakim who is drooling for the opportunity to torture and murder his political opponents at will.