Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Children Targeted

Children Targeted

NYC Stabber Attacks Toddler in Stroller and Dad October 1, 2013 A homeless man Julius Graham from Texas attacks 5 people in a Manhattan riverside jogging park with large gardening shears, including a father shielding his son in a baby stroller. None suffered life-threatening injuries


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

Baghdad Car Bombers Target Americans Handing Candy to Children  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

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