Monday, February 25, 2008
When the mentally handicapped aren't available, the wheelchair-bound will have to do: Bomb hidden under wheelchair kills 1, injures 6 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A disabled, wheelchair-bound man blew himself up on Monday in a northern Iraqi police station, killing a top police official and wounding six police officers, police told CNN.
The attack, which occurred in Samarra in Salaheddin province, reflects official concern over the innovative tactics employed by insurgents in Iraq. Bombs, have been placed inside dead animals and hidden in carts. And in recent days, vagrants have been involved in bombings.
A high-ranking official with Samarra police said that the man came to meet with Brig. Gen. Abdul Jabbar Rabei Muttar, the deputy commander of security, at the security operations building in the city. The pair met last week as well.
The man was searched when he entered the building, but police didn't look under his wheelchair seat, where the explosives had been placed. The man detonated the explosives when Muttar approached him.
Also Monday, a roadside bomb exploded in the middle of a crowd of Shiite Muslims in southeastern Baghdad on Monday, killing three and wounding 15, an Interior Ministry official told CNN.
The strike, in the Zafaraniya district, is the latest in a flurry of attacks against pilgrims trekking to Karbala for al-Arbaeen, one of the holiest days of the Shiite religious calendar. It falls on Wednesday this year...
"Innovative tactics." Note how the attempt to use "neutral" language ends up enhancing it. I would have used a different expression, say, inhuman, which would have been more accurately descriptive and would lead to other descriptors which the thesaurus suggests as:
barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, cannibalistic, cold-blooded, cruel, devilish, diabolical, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, grim, hateful, heartless, implacable, inhumane, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, savage, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting, unsympathetic, vicious, wolfish
Or perhaps, loathsome:
abhorrent, abominable, beastly, bitchy*, creepy, deplorable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, funky, grody, gross, hideous, horrible, invidious, lousy, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, odious, offensive, pesky, pestiferous, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sleazeball, sleazy*, slimy*, spastic, stinking, uncool*, vile
Any of which would be more accurate than "innovative."
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Just another article written by our innovative mass media..
It's hardly "innovative" anyway -- a number of Palestinian bombers have used similar methods.
Anyway, after the reports that the first assassination attempt on Benazir Bhutto (a couple of works before she was killed) involved handing her a booby-trapped baby to kiss, it'll take more than this to shock me.