Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Iraq Terrorists Target CHILDREN
A suicide car bomber in Baghdad detonated his vehicle next to a U.S. military Humvee, amid a crowd of Iraqi children. Police say the blast killed 24 people, including up to a dozen children and one U.S. soldier.
Neighborhood resident Abbas Ali Jassem described the U.S. patrol entering the neighborhood and children starting to run behind it.
Suddenly an explosion occurred, leaving the east Baghdad neighborhood in shock.
Police Lt. Ali Abbas said that most of the bodies brought to the nearby al-Kindi Hospital were those of children. The U.S. military said at least seven children were killed. Last September, bombs killed 35 children as U.S. troops handed out candy at the inauguration of a sewage-treatment plant in west Baghdad...
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