Al Qaeda Uses Handicapped Women in Mass Murder Attack
Charles Johnson
Fri Feb 1, 2008 at 8:54 am PST • Views: 426
It’s an appalling and sickening story, but it’s also an indicator of great desperation on Al Qaeda’s part: Al Qaeda use two ‘Down’s syndrome’ women to blow up 73 people in Baghdad markets.
Two women who reportedly had Down’s syndrome may have been unwilling suicide bombers in twin blasts that killed up to 73 people at pet markets in Baghdad today.
A female bomber killed 45 people at a packed pet market in Baghdad this, police said, in the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital in six months.
A separate bombing shortly after killed 20 people and wounded scores at a bird market in southern Baghdad, police said. The death toll from the two bombings increased throughout the day to at least 73.
The chief Iraqi military spokesman in Baghdad, Brigadier General Qassim al-Moussawi, claimed the female bombers apparently had Down’s syndrome and the explosives were detonated by remote control, indicating the women may not have been willing attackers, according to his office.
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