Mentally Disabled Used in Iraq Bombings

[unhappycamper]

Mentally Disabled Used in Iraq Bombings
Associated Press | February 02, 2008

BAGHDAD - Two women described as mentally disabled and strapped with remote-control explosives - and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers - brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at least 91 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring.

Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, Iraq's chief military spokesman in Baghdad, said the women had Down syndrome and may not have known they were on suicide missions, but gave no further details on how authorities pieced together the evidence. He also said the bombs were detonated by remote control.

The coordinated blasts - coming 20 minutes apart in different parts of the city - appeared to reinforce U.S. claims al-Qaida in Iraq may be increasingly desperate and running short of able-bodied men willing or available for such missions.

But they also served as a reminder that Iraqi insurgents are constantly shifting their strategies in attempts to unravel recent security gains around the country. Women have been used in ever greater frequency in suicide attacks because they often encounter less scrutiny by security officials.

The twin attacks at the pet markets, however, could mark a disturbing use of unknowing agents of death.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,161249,00.html

[thunder rising]

1. One can never know who is telling the truth. It seems as likely story a story as WMD to justify war

[rakeeb]

2. instead of chalking it up to the never-ending list of CT's

you could read a couple of the local reports, that interviewed witnesses who identified one of the SVIEDs as the mentally disabled "crazy lady" who occasionally set up a booth at one market.

Or.....you may be right...all the civilians targeted in the blast are really in on it.