As Americans celebrate Thanksgiving today, terrorists continue their murderous rampages. At least 38 people were killed in two separate attacks in Iraq, at a crowded market and a hospital.
Lovely.
The homicide car bomber attacked a hospital south of Bagdad, killing at least 34 people and wounding about 39 more, according to a Reuters report at Yahoo! News.
The report uses the term "suicide" bomber, but since at least 34 people were murdered and only one committed suicide (the murderer), the term "homicide bomber" is 34 times more accurate.
According to the report, the explosives-packed car detonated as Iraqi security forces were gathered outside Mahmoudiya General Hospital and as U.S. civil affairs soldiers were visiting the facility to look at ways to improve it.
Another car bomb exploded near a crowded market in Hilla, 62 miles south of Baghdad, killing up to four people, according to police.
According to Reuters, in the Mahmoudiya bombing, four U.S. troops were wounded, but most of those killed and injured were civilians, including Hoda Ali Mahmoud, a 30-year-old woman whose son, less than two old, was killed. She had taken him to the hospital for treatment for a cold. "The glass flew at us," she said, sobbing as she sat up in hospital. "His nose was hit and he couldn't breathe."
Hasna Aboud's 22-year old son, who was due to get married next week, was also killed while trying to bring his mother some medicine.
According to another report, the attacks occurred as US troops arrived with Thanksgiving Day presents for young patients.
In addition, according to the same report, a vehicle was stopped west of Baghdad carrying children's toys booby trapped with hand grenades and shrapnel.
Nice.
The bombings are the latest in a series of homicide bomb attacks and car bomb blasts within the past week that have killed nearly 200 people.
Last week, 77 people were killed when explosives-strapped bombers blew themselves up inside mosques in the northern town of Khanaqin.
This kind of evil has become routine in what is described, far too politely, as the "insurgency" in Iraq.
Although learning of such evil acts again and again has taken away some of the shock, these acts are no less evil because they have now been repeated literally a thousand times around the world.
The Bible quote that comes to mind is "By their fruits you shall know them." (Matthew 7:20).
Of course, it is not just the results; it is also the intent. These thugs deliberately target innocent non-combatant men, women and children for death.
By deliberately targeting innocent non-combatant civilians for death, these people have conclusively proven that it was absolutely right to remove them and their kind from power.
For more commentary on these attacks, check out Powerline; Gateway Pundit; The Sundries Shack; Dog Pundit; WMD; Camp Katrina; A Blog for All, and Michelle Malkin.
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