Military: New Iraqi school (girls) had bombs built in

[rodeodance]

I missed this earlier!!


http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/03/iraq.school.bomb/index.html

Military: New Iraqi school had bombs built in
POSTED: 11:29 p.m. EDT, May 3, 2007
Story Highlights
• U.S. troopers find girls' school rigged with explosives
• Military suspects al Qaeda was behind the plot
• Plot was "sophisticated and premeditated attempt to inflict massive casualties"
• Iraqi contractors were in charge of building the school

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- American soldiers discovered a girls school being built north of Baghdad had become an explosives-rigged "death trap," the U.S. military said Thursday.

The plot at the Huda Girls' school in Tarmiya was a "sophisticated and premeditated attempt to inflict massive casualties on our most innocent victims," military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said.........

The military suspects the plot was the work of al Qaeda, because of its nature and sophistication, Caldwell said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

The plot was uncovered Saturday, when troopers in the Salaheddin province found detonating wire across the street from the school. They picked up the wire and followed its trail, which led to the school. Once inside, they found an explosive-filled propane tank buried beneath the floor. There were artillery shells built into the ceiling and floor, and another propane tank was found, the military said.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

1. Jesus christ.

That's fucking insane. These people make me sick.

[MADem]

2. Authorities intend to question the Iraqis involved in the school's construction.

Gee,how clever of them! What a novel idea!

[Ian David]

3. Think they got the idea from an episode of Stargate: SG-1? n/t

[youngdem]

4. They may have gotten the idea from the US, strangely enough.

The Bath School Disaster - (1927)

"Kehoe used a detonator to ignite dynamite and hundreds of pounds of pyrotol which he had secretly planted inside the school over the course of many months. As rescuers started gathering at the school, Kehoe drove up, stopped, and detonated a bomb inside his shrapnel-filled vehicle, killing himself and the school superintendent, and killing and injuring several others. During the rescue efforts, searchers discovered an additional 500 pounds (230 kg) of unexploded dynamite and pyrotol planted throughout the basement of the school's south wing."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

Perhaps they saw that even though Americans are complete callous to the suffering of adults, we still have a visceral reaction to mass casualties at a school full of children. So, they are seeking perhaps to send a message because we are becoming immune to their attempts at persuasion using adults as fodder.

[Rydz777]

5. What in the world are we doing there? Putting our troops

into this mess is stupid, irrational, insane, and beyond belief. Out NOW.