this has to be an all time low! gee whiz! a child with down syndrome/
horr9ible, awful, sickening! they just don't care about anybody.

~Tamar Mag Raine
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Oakland Mayor's Commission on People with disabilities


> [Original Message]
> From: Kathy <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 1/31/2005 7:02:55 AM
> Subject: Re: Suicide Bomber a Child w/ a disabvility.
>
> This is a new low.  Mike, where did you see this, cnn.com?
>
> Kat
>
> On Monday 31 January 2005 1:56 pm, Mike Collis wrote:
> > Saw this news article online, and thought it was newsworthy.
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Minister: Suicide bomber a handicapped child
> > Iraq police say attacker seemed to suffer from Down's Syndrome
> > The Associated Press
> > Updated: 7:25 a.m. ET Jan. 31, 2005
> >
> > BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's interior minister said Monday that insurgents
used a
> > handicapped child as one of the suicide bombers who launched attacks on
> > election day.
> >
> > Falah al-Naqib told reporters in Baghdad that 38 attacks were carried
out
> > on polling stations in Iraq on Sunday and that one of the suicide
bombings
> > was carried out by a disabled child.
> >
> > "A handicapped child was used to carry out a suicide attack on a polling
> > site," al-Naqib said. "This is an indication of what horrific actions
they
> > are carrying out."
> >
> > He gave no other details about the attack, but police at the scene of
one
> > the Baghdad blasts said the bomber appeared to have Down's Syndrome.
> >
> > Al-Naqib praised an Iraqi citizen who was killed while blocking one
suicide
> > bomber from reaching a crowd of people outside at polling station.
> >
> > Iraq's prime minister, Ayad Allawi, said the seven men who carried out
> > suicide attacks near polling stations Sunday were foreigners. In all,
> > insurgent attacks and suicide bombers left at least 44 people dead
Sunday.
> >
> > C 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not
be
> > published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.