Dozens Of Children Killed As Soldiers Hand Out Candy

POSTED: 6:48 am EDT September 30, 2004
UPDATED: 3:06 pm EDT September 30, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Children who survived a deadly car bomb attack in Baghdad
Thursday said they'd been offered candy by U.S. troops -- and when they went to
get the candy, a car bomb went off.
A 12-year-old boy who was badly injured in the explosions said he and the other
children were getting sweets from the U.S. troops when the explosions happened.
The children were not in school because the academic year has not yet started
in
Iraq.
At least 42 people, 35 of them children, were killed by multiple explosions
that
rocked the Baghdad neighborhood celebrating the opening of a new sewage system.
Hospital and military officials say at least 137 people were wounded --
including 10 U.S. soldiers.
The blasts -- two car bombs and a roadside bomb -- went off near a U.S. convoy
in the western part of the Iraqi capital.
It's the biggest number of children killed in any insurgent attack since the
conflict in Iraq began 17 months ago.
An Iraqi government spokesman said the bombs targeted the sewage ceremony at
which residents were celebrating. He said a U.S. convoy was passing by at the
same time.
A U.S. helicopter evacuated some of the survivors, while other choppers circled
overhead.
A U.S. military spokesman called the bombings a "despicable" attack.
"This attack was carried out by evil people who do not want the Iraqis to
celebrate and don't want (reconstruction) projects in Iraq," said Iraqi
National
Guard Lt. Ahmad Saad.
The attacks were part of a day of violence -- including U.S. airstrikes in
Fallujah -- that left 46 people dead and more than 200 wounded.
Earlier Thursday, a U.S. soldier was among three people killed in a suicide
car-bomb attack on an Iraqi government compound outside Baghdad. Sixty other
people -- including three Americans -- were wounded.
Yet another car bombing Thursday killed four people and wounded 16 in the
northern city of Talafar. The apparent target there was the city police chief.
He escaped.
Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss, of Georgia, said that Thursday's bombings are
a
sign that the United States is winning the war in Iraq. He told CNN that if the
United States weren't winning the war, the insurgents wouldn't be carrying out
attacks like these.

Dozens Of Children Killed As Soldiers Hand Out Candy
Typical U$ Cowards hiding behind women and children!
POSTED: 6:48 am EDT September 30, 2004
UPDATED: 3:06 pm EDT September 30, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Children who survived a deadly car bomb attack in Baghdad
Thursday said they'd been offered candy by U.S. troops -- and when they went to
get the candy, a car bomb went off.
A 12-year-old boy who was badly injured in the explosions said he and the other
children were getting sweets from the U.S. troops when the explosions happened.
The children were not in school because the academic year has not yet started in
Iraq.
At least 42 people, 35 of them children, were killed by multiple explosions that
rocked the Baghdad neighborhood celebrating the opening of a new sewage system.
Hospital and military officials say at least 137 people were wounded --
including 10 U.S. soldiers.
The blasts -- two car bombs and a roadside bomb -- went off near a U.S. convoy
in the western part of the Iraqi capital.
It's the biggest number of children killed in any insurgent attack since the
conflict in Iraq began 17 months ago.
An Iraqi government spokesman said the bombs targeted the sewage ceremony at
which residents were celebrating. He said a U.S. convoy was passing by at the
same time.
A U.S. helicopter evacuated some of the survivors, while other choppers circled
overhead.
A U.S. military spokesman called the bombings a "despicable" attack.
"This attack was carried out by evil people who do not want the Iraqis to
celebrate and don't want (reconstruction) projects in Iraq," said Iraqi National
Guard Lt. Ahmad Saad.
The attacks were part of a day of violence -- including U.S. airstrikes in
Fallujah -- that left 46 people dead and more than 200 wounded.
Earlier Thursday, a U.S. soldier was among three people killed in a suicide
car-bomb attack on an Iraqi government compound outside Baghdad. Sixty other
people -- including three Americans -- were wounded.
Yet another car bombing Thursday killed four people and wounded 16 in the
northern city of Talafar. The apparent target there was the city police chief.
He escaped.
Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss, of Georgia, said that Thursday's bombings are a
sign that the United States is winning the war in Iraq. He told CNN that if the
United States weren't winning the war, the insurgents wouldn't be carrying out
attacks like these.