Bombers Did Not Have Down Syndrome

There is a story that has just been posted indicating that the two women used in the homicide bombings in Iraq did not have Down Syndrome, as they had previously indicated.

The U.S. military said Wednesday that two women used as suicide bombers in attacks earlier this month had undergone psychiatric treatment but there is no indication they had Down syndrome as Iraqi and U.S. officials initially had claimed.

Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, a military spokesman, said the women used in the Feb. 1 pet market bombings had been identified as residents from the northeastern outskirts of Baghdad who were in their late 20s or early 30s. The two attacks killed nearly 100 people, and Iraqi and U.S. officials said at the time the women appeared to be unwitting attackers.

So with this news, can we expect that more women will be used as homicide bombers, and this is the beginning of a new wave of violence, after the relative calm, created by the Surge!! In a way, it is too bad, because I know it affected me, and others, that al-Qaeda would be so evil as to use the most innocent among us, and to find that this was not the case is even more troubling, in regard to what is happening in Iraq!! Did their psychiatric problems contribute to their being used as bombers? This should be an area that needs to be investigated, and find out what other factors turned them into "homicide" bombers!!


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