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Iraq: Kidnappers Use Victims as Unwitting Bombers

Bush "the devil"? (I've mostly wanted to give Hugo Chavez the benefit of the doubt, but what the...?) Hardly. If we're handing out devil badges, let's start with this AP story.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Insurgents are no longer using just volunteers to drive suicide car bombs but are instead kidnapping people with their cars, rigging the vehicles with explosives, and blowing them up remotely, the Defense Ministry said Thursday.

In what appears to be a new tactic for the insurgency, the ministry said the kidnap victims do not know their cars have been loaded with explosives when they are released.

Unbelievable.

Posted by Julian Brookes on 09/21/06 at 11:01 AM | E-mail | Print | Digg | de.licio.us | Reddit | Newsvine | Yahoo! MyWeb | StumbleUpon | Netscape | Google |



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Chilling. And as much as I hate to admit it, an unfortunate reminder that BushCo isn't completely wrong when they talk about evil people afoot.

Posted by: Deacon on 09/22/06 at 3:50 PM

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