The "insurgents"

Iraq the Model provides a bit of insight on the character of those whom the media invariably refer to as "insurgents".  These are the guys Michael Moore calls "Minutemen". 

The suicide attack that was performed on an election center in one of Baghdad's districts (Baghdad Al-Jadeedah) last Sunday was performed using a kidnapped "Down Syndrome" patient.

Eye witnesses said (and I'm quoting one of my colleagues; a dentist who lives there) "the poor victim was so scared when ordered to walk to the searching point and began to walk back to the terrorists. In response the criminals pressed the button and blew up the poor victim almost half way between their position and the voting center's entrance".

I couldn't believe the news until I met another guy from that neighborhood who knows the family of the victim. The guy was reported missing 5 days prior to elections' day and the family were distributing posters that specified his descriptions and asking anyone who finds him to contact them.

When a relative of mine (who has a mental handicap due to an Rh conflict at birth) told me a month ago that a group of men in a car tried to kidnap him as he was standing in front of the institution he periodically visits to get medicine and support waiting for his brother; I thought that he was imagining the whole story. He said that they tried to force him into the car telling him not to be afraid and that they're from the "mujahideen and not going to hurt him". My relative, despite his handicap was moved by his survival instinct and managed to run away. After I heard the other story, I began to connect between the two stories and to consider my cousin's story as a true one that uncovered a new miserable war technique that can come only from the sickest minds.

The attack using an individual with Downs Syndrome was also mentioned in here.

Comments

[Scott]

Unfortunately, it's people like Michael Moore who more or less discredit my anti-Iraq War argument without a complete read of it. Funny how he and I are not now in the same camp.

[Tom Bowler]

Hard to imagine that you and he could ever be in the same camp.

[Scott]

Well, we were pre-3/20/03. Again, as I rejoice for Sunday, I wish we had tried it somewhere else first. Unfortunately the anti-all war crowd drowned out my pre-March '03 argument to exclusion.