Cowardly ruthlessness

Dozens Killed in Worst Baghdad Attack in Months

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Hussein Ali, 31, a birdseller who lives near the Ghazil market but moved his stall to Sadr City a year ago because of previous attacks, echoed his pessimism. “It will get worse,” he said, beneath shattered windows and piles of victims’ shoes.

Iraq’s chief military spokesman in Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi told The Associated Press that the bombers appeared to be mentally impaired and that the explosives were detonated by remote control.

Maj. Gen. Abdul Kareem al-Ezzi, a senior officer in the Ministry of Interior police commandos, said officials at the Ghazil market had scrutinized the suicide bomber’s head and concluded that she had Downs Syndrome. However Iraqi officials have made similar claims in the past, and other witnesses said her head could have been distorted by the blast.

One eyewitness, Mohammed Qasem, 35, a roadside vendor at Ghazil, said he saw the woman minutes before the explosion, apparently behaving normally.

“She was guiding a small kid with her and she wasn’t uncomfortable at all because she was walking and looking behind her,” he said.

“The child who was with her stopped near me when I saw her for the last time, and a few seconds later the explosion happened and I was thrown a couple of meters away from my booth. I recognized her later when I saw the head but the child had vanished, and I want to know what happened to him because I can’t forget the innocent look in his eyes.”

As adults collected scraps of flesh from a nearby roof children helped pick up the human remains.


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