(Iraqi) Father dies after failing to stop playground bomb attack

[sabra]

Source: SMH

KIRKUK, Iraq: A suicide bomber exploded a cart of sweets on a crowded playground in the northern Iraq town of Tuz yesterday, killing a child and a father and wounding at least 20 children.

The father, who had come to the playground with his children for the Eid al-Fitr festival tried to prevent the suicide bomber from setting off his explosives but failed, police captain Hiwa Abdullah said.

A spokesman at the hospital in Tuz, about 200 kilometres north of Baghdad, confirmed it had received the bodies of a man and a child.

Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan and which began in Iraq for Sunni Arabs yesterday, is traditionally a day when families visit relatives and head to public parks for picnics and relaxation.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/father-dies-after-failing-to-stop-playground-bomb-attack/2007/10/12/1191696173952.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. How sad. He gave up his life trying to save the kids--RIP, dad.

[joshcryer]

5. He saved many of them, though. It wasn't for naught.

[BootinUp]

2. What a sad story

very sad.

[maxsolomon]

3. there is no apologizing for the magnitude of america's blunder

it will take the rest of my life (40 years or so) to make amends.

and we won't even bother trying.

[ohio2007]

4. Children hurt and killed in Iraq suicide bomb attack

Children hurt and killed in Iraq suicide bomb attack - Post Media Reply Marked as: Mature
A suicide bomber exploded a cart of sweets on a crowded playground in the northern Iraq town of Tuz Hurmatu on Friday, killing a child, a father and wounding twenty children


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3f4_1192191829

Ramadan has ended

[joshcryer]

6. If this thread doesn't get more comments than the Buddah thread...

...then I will be disappointed.

They freaking targeted children!

[ohio2007]

8. it won't

Killing Sunni children in the Sunni village requires Sunni's to take back their country from all enemies, both foreign and domestic.

The locals know who is behind these suicide tactics against their children.


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8a1_1192272320

the suicide bomber profile doesn't fit the blackwater or coalition standard operating procedures.

I wonder where the "martyrs" DVD will be released and just what he said that justifies killing of the children of "collaborators". I doubt it will be in English or even be made available to an English speaking audience. We seemed to be kept in the dark as to what mindless screeds they rant as a final testament.
I think the families of the children deserve to hear the video and an explanation from those who authorized the attack bc I know our MSM will never do such an in depth story as that.

[Teaser]

7. There are no good actors in Iraq.

Just remember that.

Almost anyone with any clout or power in Iraq, including us, are
performing acts ranging the gamut from very bad to outright evil.

There is no one to root for. So why not leave?