Iraqi children playing soccer blown up by bomb

[Barrett808]

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, May 30 (Reuters) - One Iraqi child was killed and two wounded on Friday when a group of children playing soccer picked up a bomb and it exploded, police said.

The children, aged about 5 or 6, were playing near a rubbish dump in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, when they spotted a strange object, police said.

When they picked it up, the home-made device exploded.

Relatives brought the injured children to a local hospital, where they lay in bed, bandaged and blood-spattered.

(Reporting by Khalid al-Ansary; Writing by Adrian Croft; Editing by Myra MacDonald) ([e-mail]; Reuters Messaging: [e-mail])

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30931373.htm

[grassfed]

1. thanks Hillary

[krispos42]

2. It wasn't a cluster bomb n/t

[onehandle]

5. If Hillary Clinton had never gone to the Senate, there would still be an Iraq War.

And those kids would have Still blown up.

This is Bush's fucking war.

And before you go into a predictable tirade, I'm not a Hillary supporter.

[grassfed]

16. she won't repudiate her vote.

[Rainbowreflect]

6. That is F**King uncalled for.

I am not a Hillary supporter, but she cares deeply about all children.
Those poor babies.

[bean fidhleir]

7. If she cared even shallowly, she'd never have voted for the killing

That's the bottom line. Anyone who votes to kill for money is a frikking criminal psychopath no matter what their position in society is.

[Pavulon]

9. What about those who continue to fund it?

[bean fidhleir]

11. Anyone who votes to kill for money....

The original vote or the continued funding, same-same. Criminal psychopaths all.

[BunkerHill24]

12. WHY is it uncalled for? Hillary voted for the war...thatr's the truth

...and now we await *'s attack on Iran, which again Hillary voted for Kyle& Hollyjoe amendment.

Don't try to cover for Hillary and her warmongering agenda.

[DrDan]

10. that is low . . .

from a JE supporter . . .

Place the blame where it belongs - with junior and his neocon masters

If you want to blame Hillary for her vote - make sure you include the rest of the Dems that voted similarly. To single out Hillary is just partisan beyond the pale.

[redqueen]

3. *sigh*

:cry:

How can anyone ignore this war? How can people just put this kind of thing out of their minds? I will never, ever understand. :(

[Bush_MUST_Go]

4. 2 more innocent kids bush & co. got killed for LIES.

[uppityperson]

8. Damn those soccer balls! k&r for those poor kids.

[Xithras]

13. Reminds me of the U.N. landmines psa

Probably one of the most thought provoking commercials I've seen. Saw it on TV ONCE...then it was pulled. Most stations wouldn't even run it once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfxJ8okkgYo

[AlphaCentauri]

17. In wonderland nobody wants to pay attention to reality

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

14. Shades of the Soviets in Afghanistan!

Each day I find one more reason to be ashamed for our nation.

:cry:

[ohio2007]

15. Five teenage cricketers shot dead ( Taliban laying down "the law" Pakistan )

GUNMEN have shot dead five teenage boys who were returning home after playing a cricket match in the troubled south-western Pakistani province of Baluchistan.

The teenagers, aged between 15 and 19, were killed today in the provincial capital Quetta, said city police chief Rehmatullah Niazi.

snip
More than 100 people gathered outside the hospital chanting slogans against the attackers, witnesses said.
snip
Hundreds of people have died in violence in the province since the insurgency flared in late 2004.
The province has also been hit by attacks blamed on Taliban militants


http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23787117-5001028,00.html?from=public_rss

For some reason the article never mentioned what was being "chanted". Seems when a hundred people show up they would at least include that meaningless sidebar to the story.
Also unreported is "the surge" in Afghanistan;


But he also said the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which has been battling militants in the Garmser district of southern Helmand province, "is producing some really good effects ... and I'm also going to admit that they're a little better than anticipated."

Asked about the U.S. presidential campaign, McNeill said he believes the three remaining major-party candidates all, like most members of Congress, think U.S. goals in Afghanistan are achievable, "and we should do everything humanly possible to achieve them."

He also pointed to signs of progress in the country.

"Look at these kids going to school. There's a half million more this year than last year. Look at the number of trucks on the road ... Eleven universities opened last year as I understand it. That's a lot of progress."





http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9103I3O0&show_article=1&catnum=2


Doubt the Taliban are ever going to get back into power and execute children for flying kites again but....thats what some people hope happens.

[AlphaCentauri]

19. Only God in government pushers have that desire

Recent history

Afghanistan, after several wars and different governments, came under Russian control in 1979. During their occupation, the Russians attempted to advance the status of women in this conservative, now once more male dominated, society. Although women could not have a say in their government and lived secluded lives, they were encouraged to get an education and get jobs. Women composed 70% of all teachers in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, 40% of all doctors, and 50% of all students in the university. There was strong resistance to the Russian influence in Afghanistan, and in 1988, the Russian government was forced to withdraw. In 1992, the communist government in Afghanistan was overthrown by a group of religious fundamentalists, and in 1996, another fundamentalist organization, the Taliban, took control of Kabul from them. The women of Afghanistan had suffered from the brutalities of war during the Russian occupation and then during the civil wars from 1992 to 1996, but under the Taliban, they lost all their freedoms. The Taliban, saying that they were following strict Islamic laws and claiming to want to protect the virtue of the women, imposed many restrictions upon them: forbidding them to leave their homes without a male escort, requiring them to wear a bruqa (an expensive garment that covers them completely, leaving only a mesh square for them to see out of), not allowing them to have jobs, requiring the people to paint over the windows of any house in which a woman lives, preventing male doctors from treating women, and forbidding the education of girls Today, the Taliban still restricts the livelihood of women in Afghanistan.

http://library.thinkquest.org/C001142/countries/afghanistan.php

[Pavulon]

18. The bomb was iraqi..

someone trying to kill us or someone from another sect or militia killed them.

We paid to kill soviets in Afghanistan. That was the CIA and ISI at work.

[AlphaCentauri]

20. Cause and Effect, why they want to kill us?