Teenage girl suicide bomber kills Iraqi army captain
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- mattbrawn
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Sky News are reporting that an Iraqi army captain has been killed following a suicide bombing conducted by a teenage girl. Earlier reports believed the girl to be as young as eight-years-old, but the US army have issued a statement claiming she is considerably older.
According to reports from an Iraqi army spokesperson, the bomb was a remote control device which also injured four other soldiers near Youssifiyah, a town just south of the Iraq capital Baghdad.
According to reports from an Iraqi army spokesperson, the bomb was a remote control device which also injured four other soldiers near Youssifiyah, a town just south of the Iraq capital Baghdad.
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This is heart breaking. I wonder if the little girl had any idea what was going on, or knew what the weird vest she was wearing was.
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8 years old?! If that's true, it's a real cowardly act from the people who trained her. To convince a girl that young to carry out a suicide attack is just preying on an easy target.
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This is as low as it gets. Choose an animal before you choose a child, Jesus.
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The article says the U.S. soldiers now speculate that the girl was around 16 years old.
It is still sick though, regardless. I wonder what they told her...it can't be the 72 virgins as well can it?-
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- Greg_Bunker
- 2 months ago
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choose and animal before a child?!?! how about neither. The animal doesn't deserve it any more than the child does.
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- stephenthomson
- 2 months ago
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Truly despicable. What humans will do for a religion still astounds me. These people will burn in the hell they have created for themselves. If there is a god let these people feel his/her full wrath.
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- natedawson
- 2 months ago
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As horrific as this sounds, it doesn't quite compare to the THOUSANDS of CHILDREN in Africa and Sri Lanka that carry automatic weapons and fight like they were Rambo.
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- chillwillNJ
- 2 months ago
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So sad.
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She's no better than any of the hardcore Christian children we have here in America. Sure, this story is tragic...But when you're that young, it's very easy to be manipulated.
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- MissJonaLyn
- 2 months ago
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using innocent children to push your agenda, no matter the cause is as despicable as it gets
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- iammyfathersson
- 2 months ago
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Sickening. Could you imagine strapping a bomb to your 6 or 8 year old child and detonating it?
Repulsive!-
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- bornfreeid
- 2 months ago
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Do you still think we can come out on top in Iraq?
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- Jtonio4823
- 2 months ago
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The British invaded Iraq during World War I in the Mesopotamian Campaign. They invaded southern Mesopotamia in November 1914. The Battle of Ctesiphon was fought in November 1915. The undermanned and overstretched British forces were defeated by the Turks, who besieged the British in the city of Kut-al-Amara for 143 days in the Siege of Kut, ending with a British surrender, with 10,000 men becoming prisoners in April 1916.
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So sad that we can commit acts like this on our own flesh and blood.
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Your right Touchart to point us to history to answer our questions about today.....
Reading this entry in the British National Archives by the Mesopotamia Commision regarding the battle makes interesting reading.
D. THE MISUSE OF RETICENCE
Battle of Ctesiphon.
57. There are two methods of concealing a failure. The first is to suppress all mention of it. The second is to obscure its significance by the glare of a contemporaneous achievement. The first method was, as we have seen, used at the first battle of Kut. It was the second method which obtained after the battle of Ctesiphon, when the military success of withdrawing all the wounded in the face of a pursuing enemy diverted attention from the grave medical defects which were disclosed in the course of that operation.
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We are guilty too. Tell me, is it 'worth' it?
"This U.S. government mindset was expressed perfectly by former U.S. official Madeleine Albright when she stated that the deaths of half a million Iraqi children from the U.S. and UN sanctions against Iraq had, in fact, been “worth it.” By “it” she was referring to the U.S. attempt to oust Saddam Hussein from power through the use of the sanctions. Even though that attempt did not succeed, U.S. officials still felt that the deaths of the Iraqi children had been worth trying to get rid of Saddam.
It’s no different with respect to President Bush’s war on Iraq and the resulting occupation, which has killed or maimed tens of thousands of Iraqi people, including countless children. (The Pentagon has long had a policy of not keeping count of the number of Iraqi people, including children, it kills.) In the minds of U.S. officials, the deaths and maiming of all those Iraqi people, including the children, while perhaps unfortunate “collateral damage,” have, in fact, been worth it.
That’s why U.S. officials gave nary a thought to the death of that five-year-old girl who was bombed into oblivion with the bomb that did the same to Zarqawi. The child’s death was “worth it” because the bomb also killed a terrorist, which U.S. officials believe, brings the Middle East another step closer to peace and freedom. "-
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- pressrecord
- 2 months ago
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iraq one big lie
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Even during a "Jihad" this is murder. The very book these terrorists say they follow tells not to murder children. And That I believe is a one way ticket to a blazing fire.
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