The first reports I heard were about "two mentally disabled women" who were said to have been the bombers.
I was disgusted and horrified.
Then I thought about it and wondered how people knew that the bombers were "two mentally disabled women"? I mean if two bombs had exploded and there were only parts of the bombers left scattered around the scene along with the remains of those killed and wounded what was the evidence that enabled the reporters to use the phrase "two mentally disabled women"? Without meaning to be offensive it's hard enough to distinguish gender from body parts much less their mental state.
I decided to wait a little for the events of the day to percolate past the headlines until some more quotable quotes appeared and lo and behold the following finally came from the BBC
Brig Qassem Ata al-Moussawi, Iraq's chief military spokesman in Baghdad, told the BBC:
"The operation was carried out by two booby-trapped mentally disabled women. [The bombs] were detonated remotely". Police said the women were wearing belts carrying 15kg (33lb) of explosives and may have been unwittingly sent on the suicide missions.
The Iraqi prime minister said: "The terrorists used disabled women in this crime. This shows the moral degradation of these criminal gangs and how much they hate mankind."
It was at this point that I wondered whether I was being exposed to truth or propaganda!
If, in the final analysis, there is an inquiry into this horrific bombing, and it is found that the Iraqi authorities have used this story as a means of garnering support for their regime, against those who oppose them, then much as I hate to say it, those that have spread the story are even more morally bankrupt than the terrorists and support for them from the US military and others around the world, becomes equally morally bankrupt.
Let's investigate this news story and let's then have a little chat about those who authenticated it!
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