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.
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> 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.
>
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