Is It OK to Call Them ‘Terorrists’ Yet?
Clean commentary on this is impossible (HT Taranto at Best of the Web; bolds are mine):
Children used in Iraqi militant attack
By Kristin Roberts
WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - A U.S. general on Tuesday said Iraqi insurgents used children in a suicide attack this weekend, raising worries that the insurgency has adopted a new tactic to get through security checkpoints with bombs.
Maj. Gen. Michael Barbero, deputy director for regional operations in the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, said adults in a vehicle with two children in the backseat were allowed through a Baghdad checkpoint on Sunday.
The adults then parked next to a market in the Adamiya area of Baghdad, abandoned the vehicle and detonated it with the children still inside, according to the general and another defense official.
“Children in the back seat, lower suspicion, we let it move through,” Barbero said. “They parked the vehicle, the adults run out and detonate it with the children in the back.”
….. The attack killed five, including the children, and wounded seven, the defense official said.
Reuters loves to tell us that “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” So what “freedom fighters” down through human history have used children as sacrificial decoys?
There’s also a longer report from AFP here.
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UPDATE, Mar. 26: More on terrorist child abuse and endangerment (HT Hot Air) –
BAGHDAD — Al Qaeda in Iraq is using kidnapped children to pick up weapons dropped in battle zones, get past checkpoints and die in car bombs, according to U.S. officials and Iraqis in Baghdad.
“Al Qaeda is using children to pick up weapons and ammunition knowing that U.S. troops will not shoot against children,” said one U.S. military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Where’s the outrage from the international human rights community?
