Mentally disabled women used in Bagdad bombing,just reported on CNN.

[Swede]

Evil fuckers used remote control triggers.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. If true (coming from CNN, its veracity is to be questioned), that's HORRIBLE!

:grr:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. From what I read she was considered mentally ill by the locals.

From the AP article:
Police said the woman wearing the bomb sold cream in the mornings at the market and was known to locals as "the crazy lady."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[xxqqqzme]

2. because cnn reported it, I'm supposed to believe it?

Who told them about it?

[Lex]

4. CNN is not to be believed.

Look for a corroborating source from an actual reliable news outlet.

[Burma Jones]

5. Here's a clip from a NY Times article

Maj. Gen. Abdul Kareem al-Ezzi, a senior officer in the Ministry of Interior police commandos, said officials at the Ghazil market had scrutinized the suicide bomber’s head and concluded that she had Downs Syndrome. However Iraqi officials have made similar claims in the past, and other witnesses said her head could have been distorted by the blast.

One eyewitness, Mohammed Qasem, 35, a roadside vendor at Ghazil, said he saw the woman minutes before the explosion, apparently behaving normally.

“She was guiding a small kid with her and she wasn’t uncomfortable at all because she was walking and looking behind her,” he said.

“The child who was with her stopped near me when I saw her for the last time, and a few seconds later the explosion happened and I was thrown a couple of meters away from my booth. I recognized her later when I saw the head but the child had vanished, and I want to know what happened to him because I can’t forget the innocent look in his eyes.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/world/middleeast/02iraq.html?hp


Edited for correct link.....oops

[NavyDavy]

6. crazy people can have radical beliefs also...look at * he

believes hes doing a great job and speaks to God

[leftynyc]

7. A few more links

A yahoo link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080201/ts_afp/iraqunrest_080201153130

A BBC link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7221639.stm


For those who don't believe CNN - how many links would you like me to come up with?

[Buzz Clik]

8. I'm confused by the attitudes on this thread and others: is a mentally capable terrorist better?

I really don't get this discussion at all. If the terrorists are recruiting the mentally disabled, that's horrible, but not more horrible than blowing up thousands of innocent people annually.

Some posters here seem to have lost their way -- they gleefully use suicide bombings as metric of Bush's failings but lose sight of the concept that they are unthinkable and unforgivable acts. Using the mentally disabled to do their bidding is simply another log on the raging inferno.