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Baghdad Car Bombers Target Americans Handing Candy to Children

July 13, 2005 A suicide bomber has killed as many as 24 children in Iraq. According to an Iraqi eyewitness, US troops were handing out sweets to children gathered around their Humvee military vechicle in eastern Baghdad when a bomber drove a car carrying explosives up to the group and detonated his weapon. One US soldier was killed and three more injured

September 30, 2004 Al Qaeda in Iraq, known as the Tawhid and Jihad group of the al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi took credit for a car bomb that went off in a crowd of children rushing to gather candy from US soldiers in an approaching convoy as the community was celebrating the opening of a new sewage plant. After the first car bomb went off, bystanders rushing to help the injured were caught in two more explosions. Altogether, 41 people died and 129 were injured. 34, the vast majority of the dead were children still on holiday from school. 90 percent of the suicide attacks in Iraq were carried out by terrorists and foreign fighters recruited, trained and equipped by Al Qaeda in Iraq. In June 2006, Zarqawi was killed by bombs dropped by an F-16 fighter

Al Qaeda Ally Claims Latest Iraqi Bombings

30 September 2004

A statement apparently from the Tawhid and Jihad group of the al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi says it was behind three suicide attacks on a US military convoy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

More than 45 people died, included 34 children, and 140 others were wounded.

The bombs went off as people gathered for the opening of a water treatment plant, though its not clear whether the US convoy or the crowds was the target.

The group also claimed responsibility for an earlier attack in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, which killed two Iraqi police and a US soldier and wounded 60 women and children.

Posted by: Mark Espinola || 09/30/2004 

Zarqawi Claims Credit For Suicide Bomb That Killed 34 Children ...

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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terrorist group in Iraq, Tawhid and Jihad, has claimed credit for the bombings that killed 34 children yesterday. I'm sure he's very proud of ...

U.S. General: Zarqawi Behind Most Suicide Attacks in Iraq | Fox …

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Apr 10, 2006 · More than 90 percent of the suicide attacks in Iraq are carried out by terrorists and foreign fighters recruited, trained and equipped by Al Qaeda in Iraq

September 30, 2004

Date > 2004 > October > 1 > The Mirror (London, England)

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/BOMBING+KILLS+34+CHILDREN.-a0122685448

CROWDS of children rushing to collect sweets from US troops took the full force of a triple car bombing in Baghdad yesterday a neighbourhood in south western Baghdad took to the streets to celebrate the opening of a new sewage plant. A US military convoy was the intended target but as troops beckoned the children for sweets, the first car bomb went off. As bystanders raced to help, they were caught in two more explosions. Altogether, 41 people died and 129 were injured, the vast majority of them children still on holiday from school. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group in Iraq, Tawhid and Jihad, claimed credit for the bombings. The US believed that 90 percent of the suicide attacks in Iraq are carried out by terrorists and foreign fighters recruited, trained and equipped by Al Qaeda in Iraq

6/8/2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida leader in Iraq who waged a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and beheadings, was killed overnight by F-16 jets dropping two 500-pound bombs, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday. Al-Zarqawi and seven aides, including spiritual adviser Sheik Abdul Rahman, were killed inside a building in a remote area 30 miles northeast of Baghdad, officials said Zarqawi was killed in atargeted killing by a Joint US force on June 7, 2006, while attending a meeting in an isolated safehouse approximately 8 km (5.0 mi) north of Baqubah. One United States Air Force F-16C jet dropped two 500-pound (230 kg) guided bombs on the safehouse.^[4]

similar car bomb attack in September last year killed at least 34 children in Baghdad. That attack also saw the victims gathering round US troops who were handing out sweets, to mark the opening of a water treatment plant.

If you cannot see the difference between a drone strike that goes wrong and kills an entire family and a man who crashes his car into the middle of a group of children accepting sweets from a US soldier and them blows himself and them up – as happened in Iraq in 2005 – then there is something wrong with you. Other observers say that Islamists, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also the individuals who attacked London and New York, are fighting against Western imperialism in Muslim lands. But that doesn’t add up. How does blowing up Iraqi children represent a strike against American militarism?

h/t http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100238080/im-sorry-but-we-have-to-talk-about-the-barbarism-of-modern-islamist-terrorism/

Suicide bomber kills 24 children in Iraq

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

A suicide bomber has killed as many as 24 children in Iraq.

According to an Iraqi eyewitness, US troops were handing out sweets to children gathered around their Humvee military vechicle in eastern Baghdad when a bomber drove a car carrying explosives up to the group and detonated his weapon. One US soldier was killed and three more injured.

The local hospital's morgue has received 24 dead children, mostly aged between 10 and 13.

Army spokesman Major Russ Goemaere said "The car bomber made a deliberate decision to attack one of our vehicles as the soldiers were engaged in a peaceful operation with Iraqi citizens."

A Reuters camera man saw the car explode between houses, reducing three to rubble. The area is very poor and the residents are a mixed community of Sunnis, Shia and Christians.

Women were wailing in the street alongside a crumpled child's bicycle and pools of blood after the attack.

Hundreds of distraught parents gathered at the local hospital desperately searching for their children.

One father who lost a son said "Why do they attack our children? They just destroyed one US Humvee, but they killed dozens of our children."

A joint US-Iraq offensive launched in Baghdad in May has considerably reduced the number of suicide bombings, but authorities admit such attacks are hard to eliminate.

A similar car bomb attack in September last year killed at least 34 children in Baghdad. That attack also saw the victims gathering round US troops who were handing out sweets, to mark the opening of a water treatment plant.

Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said on Tuesday that declining levels of violence in his country were allowing Iraqi security forces to begin taking over duties from US troops in many cities, in a move that may pave the way for withdrawal of Western forces.