Bombers Blow Up 2 Children After Using Them as Decoys. Insurgents detonated a bomb in a car with two children in it after using the children as decoys to get through a military checkpoint in Baghdad, an American general said Tuesday.
… Maj. General. Michael Barbaro .. said American soldiers had stopped the car at the checkpoint but had allowed it to pass after seeing the two children in the back seat.
“Children in the back seat lower suspicion,” he said ... “We let it move through. They parked the vehicle. The adults run out and detonate it with the children in back.”
General Barbaro offered no further details.
Kirk Semple, The New York Times, 21 Mar 07, pg. A8
Using children’s lives as bombing schemes? Whose dream is this?