Baghdad’s fragile peace was shattered yesterday when explosives strapped to two women with Down’s syndrome were detonated by remote control in crowded pet markets, killing at least 91 people in the worst attacks that the capital had experienced for almost a year.
Iraqi and American officials blamed al-Qaeda, and accused the terrorist organisation of plumbing new depths of depravity. Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, said that al-Qaeda’s use of mentally-handicapped women as bombers showed that it had “no political programme here that is acceptable to a civilised society and that this is the most brutal and the most bankrupt of movements”.
And here's a very good reason, if we need one for banning the veil and "black pepperpot" (Pat Condell) burkha in our own countries.
Though the use of women in warfare violates religious taboos, they have obvious appeal for terrorists because they can conceal explosives beneath their black robes — abayas — and usually escape the rigorous body searches to which men are subjected.
Read it all, there's a graphic description of carnage though>>
They detonated the mentally challenged women by remote control. These people must surely be the lowest form of human life - if they can be human. It would have been better if instead of pressing the detonation button remotely the explosives were attached to them but perhaps the cowards have been using mentally challenged suicide bombers all along, who would know? Anyone that can do this sort of thing surely cannot have the brain and spirit of a human being.
(cross posted with Commonsense)
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