This report from the New York Times:
Insurgents detonated a bomb in a car with two children in it after using the children as decoys to get through a military checkpoint in Baghdad, an American general said Tuesday.
Speaking at a news briefing at the Pentagon, Maj. Gen. Michael Barbaro, deputy director for regional operations at the Joint Staff, said American soldiers had stopped the car at the checkpoint but had allowed it to pass after seeing the two children in the back seat.
“Children in the back seat lower suspicion,� he said, according to a transcript. “We let it move through. They parked the vehicle. The adults run out and detonate it with the children in back.�
This has to be the most despicable, cowardly action I have ever seen.
Maybe, just maybe, it will unite the Iraqi people against these murderers once and for all.
“‘Moderate’ is not a 4-letter word.”