36 killed, 40 wounded in Iraqi funeral blast

[muff]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide bomber killed 36 people and wounded 40 others at funeral procession in northeast Iraq, officials said.

The blast was one of several deadly attacks across Iraq on Wednesday.

The attack on the procession occurred at 1 p.m. (1000 GMT) in Muqdadiya, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, officials said.

Those attending the funeral were on foot when the bomber mixed in among them.

Full story here (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/04/iraq.main/index.html)

[kevinsmith]

Once again, people criticise the American military saying we kill civilians. While they may occasionally happen, it it always a regrettable error, and never intentional. Yet these same people who purport to dearly value human life, never utter a peep about these terrorists who willings, purposefully kill civilians in their quests.

[JuliaAguilar]

Once again, people criticise the American military saying we kill civilians. While they may occasionally happen, it it always a regrettable error, and never intentional. Yet these same people who purport to dearly value human life, never utter a peep about these terrorists who willings, purposefully kill civilians in their quests.
Well said.

I get so angry when people tell me how horrible the soldiers are because of accidental civilian deaths, when things like this happen every day.

[Zaid]

Just shows that terrorists don't blow up only Americans and shit, they blow up their own people. So I should not see people calling all Arabs terrorists.

[bergshadow]

Once again, people criticise the American military saying we kill civilians. While they may occasionally happen, it it always a regrettable error, and never intentional. The inevitable result of unnecessary tactics may not be "intentional", exactly, but "accidental" doesn't describe it either.

Unless things have changed radically in the past couple months, as of last reports and guesses, the US is killing civilians at about four times the rate the insurgents and terrorists combined are killing them. That is blaming the insurgents for all the badly aimed mortars, etc, that are aimed at US forces (not "intentional", on their part either, and much more accidental, no?) and even counting Iraqi Shia police in Sunni areas (uniformed collaborators) as "civilians".

No insurgent or terrorist force in Iraq has destroyed a single town, or even come close.

I criticise the US for killing civilians wholesale, by the tens of thousands, in Iraq, because as an adult US citizen I am morally and ethically responsible for the behavior of my elected administration and its agents - including soldiers and hired mercenaries. If Iraqis kill Iraqis for their own reasons, my involvement is much less. If foreign terrorists kill Iraqis, my involvement depends on my government's responsibility for that (not yet established. Basically inviting them in was one thing, and another is stuff like that incident with the plainclothes Brits and their car bomb equipment). I would like to be charitable and concerned, humanitarian and helpful, in issues that seem unfortunate (tsunamis, civil wars, droughts), but first things first: the elephant in the room is the US military.

[Nocturnal]

peep ;)

peep

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[Synch]

lol sharon get's the front page and this story doesn't.

[Nocturnal]

KS, it could also be said that we have created the opportunity for these assholes to do commit their acts of brutality.

lol sharon get's the front page and this story doesn't.

It's sad but at this point we are so used to these sorts of attacks that it barely seems newsworthy. It's just like how we don't hear about the thousands of people who die on a normal day of silly things like starvation, or minor diseases.