Mycernius
The Hairy Wookie
From BBC News
I heard this today on the news. I have heard of other bombings in Iraq, but this just really made me so angry that I had to pull over to calm down. I cannot believe that these people think this type of thing his helping their cause. They are just murderers warping a religion to justify their murderous ways. What has probably set me off was an article in yesterdays Daily Mail called "Inside the mind of a suicide bomber" (orginally in Time by Aparisim Ghosh) This man actually thought he was going to do good and would be forgiven in heaven by the innocents that he might kill. After reading this and hearing of this bombing today, I just seethed. Killing children at any time is wrong. There is no 'for the greater good'. Bullsh!t! It is wrong, full stop. You cannot justify it. It really depressed me.
Children die in Baghdad car bomb
Most of the victims were children, the US military says
At least 26 Iraqis, almost all of them children, have been killed by a suicide car bombing in south-eastern Baghdad.
A US soldier is also said to have died in the blast. Another three US soldiers are reported to have been injured.
A car drove up to a US army vehicle and blew up as troops gave sweets to the children, a witness said.
Hundreds of Iraqis have died in attacks by militants opposed to the US presence and a Shia-led government that took charge in Baghdad earlier this year.
'Pools of blood'
"Many Iraqi civilians, mostly children, were around the Humvee at the time of the blast," US military spokesman Sgt David Abrams told the Reuters news agency.
I rushed outside to find my son. I only found his bicycle
Victim's father
Another witness told the AFP news agency: "Children gathered round the Americans who were handing out sweets.
"Suddenly a suicide car bomber drove round from a side street and blew himself up," he said.
A television cameraman working for the Reuters agency said nearby houses had been demolished by the explosion and pools of blood collected in the street.
The blast is said to have taken place as the US patrol was passing through Baghdad's eastern al-Jedidah district which is populated mainly be Shia Muslims.
Shocked relatives
At the nearby Kindi hospital, correspondents say hundreds of distraught relatives wandered along the blood-soaked corridors shouting and screaming as they looked for their children, many of whom were badly mutilated.
An official said the bodies of 24 children had been delivered to the mortuary.
Abu Hamed, who lost his 12-year-old son in the blast, told the AFP news agency he was at home when he heard the explosion.
"I rushed outside to find my son. I only found his bicycle," he said.
He said he found his son at the Kindi hospital mortuary.
"I recognised him from his head. The rest of the body was completely burnt."
The area of eastern Baghdad where the blast took place has a mixed community of Sunnis, Shia and Christians, BBC correspondent Richard Galpin reports.
A bomb blast in Baghdad in September last year killed at least 34 children.
This attack also saw the victims gather round US troops who were handing out sweets, to mark the opening of a water treatment plant.
I heard this today on the news. I have heard of other bombings in Iraq, but this just really made me so angry that I had to pull over to calm down. I cannot believe that these people think this type of thing his helping their cause. They are just murderers warping a religion to justify their murderous ways. What has probably set me off was an article in yesterdays Daily Mail called "Inside the mind of a suicide bomber" (orginally in Time by Aparisim Ghosh) This man actually thought he was going to do good and would be forgiven in heaven by the innocents that he might kill. After reading this and hearing of this bombing today, I just seethed. Killing children at any time is wrong. There is no 'for the greater good'. Bullsh!t! It is wrong, full stop. You cannot justify it. It really depressed me.