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on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:53:47 PM
This is sick, and readers should take heart I didn't let Marcie see this. She wouldn't be pleased seeing this from Allah at Hot Air. From Reuters AlertNet:
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. The adults then abandoned the vehicle and detonated it with the children still inside, he said.
"Children in the back seat, lower suspicion, we let it move through," he said. "They parked the vehicle, the adults run out and detonate it with the children in the back."
"The brutality and ruthless nature of this enemy hasn't changed," Barbero said.
The general called that incident a new tactic, but noted U.S. forces had only seen one such occurrence involving children.
The use of chemical bombings has increased and become a tool of the insurgency, as the three chlorine bombs detonated this past weekend brought the total to six such bombings since January, the general said.
"High-profile" suicide and car bomb attacks by Sunnis against Shi'ites also have not abated, Barbero said.
But he said increased force in Iraq's capital had yielded some success, such as a reduction in murders and executions of civilians. He also said hundreds of families have returned to Baghdad and the number of tips from Iraqi civilians about insurgent activity hit its highest mark ever in February.
First, on the barbaric new tactic, this should be the headlines in every MSM outlet reporting on the war. Why? So America understands the depths with which our enemy is going to. This goes back to their cowardly tactic of using civilians as shields, and the various carbomb tactics they've employed. It's sick the level of barbarism these animals show, and the utter lack of respect they have for human life, in general. (Kind of makes you wonder if they're registered Democrats in hiding.) OK, bad joke, but one that makes it's point.
Secondly, more news that the suge is working in the drop of murders and executions. As long as the troops are patrolling the streets and engaging these animals, there wil be less indigenous killings, and people wil feel safer in those areas. The evidence of which is present in the rise in tips to the soldiers as to where these animals are. And when we find them, we engage them. Either they're killed, or they're captured. Either way, we're winning the surge, and the enemy is losing.
Do we have our good days and bad days. Yep. You bet. We will because it's a war folks. But the good is outweighing the bad exponentially in Iraq since our newest offensive began in January. With the surge reinforcements, the hits keep on coming to the enemy, and they can't adjust to our new tactics. The ROEs they had grown used to having to face in our troops are gone; tossed aside by General Petreus for ones that are far more effective. But the successes can't dwarf the cruelty and unhumanity of our enemy.
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