Unwitting suicide bombers
by unwitting suicide bombers
Friday, Feb. 01, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers brought carnage today to two pet bazaars, killing at 91 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring.
Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers brought carnage today to two pet bazaars, killing at 91 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring.
The coordinated blasts coming 20 minutes apart in different parts of the city appeared to reinforce U.S. claims al-Qaida in Iraq may be increasingly desperate and running short of able-bodied men willing or available for such missions.
The twin attacks at the pet markets, however, could mark a disturbing use of unknowing agents of death.
Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, Iraqs chief military spokesman in Baghdad, said the women had Down syndrome and may not have known they were on suicide missions. He said the bombs were detonated by remote control.
