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Thread #108255   Message #2251837
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
02-Feb-08 - 04:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: Down Syndrome women used as bombers
Subject: RE: BS: Down Syndrome women used as bombers
The Al Jazeera article lays the information it has been given in front of readers, indicating its provenance, and refrains from comment; which is the right way for a news report to handle a story such as this:

Brigadier General Qassim al-Moussawi, Iraq's chief military spokesman in Baghdad, said the women were mentally handicapped and may have been unaware they were on a suicide mission. "We found the mobiles used to detonate the women," he said, referring to the remote detonated devices that were used in the attack.