Down Syndrome boy who was made into a suicide bomber in Iraq

[NHPolitico]

This is pretty damn pathetic-- and it's great that the Sunnis reacted against this by voting. Too bad Bush didn't mention this last night.

Sydney Morning Herald
February 2, 2005
Paul McGeough, Chief Herald Correspondent, in Baghdad

Amar Ahmed Mohammed was 19 years old. But the fact that he had the mind of a four-year-old did not stop the insurgency's hard men as they strapped explosives to his chest and guided him to a voting centre in suburban Al-Askan.


Before dawn yesterday in Baghdad, his parents strapped his broken remains to the roof of a taxi to lead a sorrowful procession to the holy city of Najaf. There, they gave him a ceremonial wash and shrouded him in white cotton before burying him in the shadow of the shrine of Imam Ali, the sainted founder of their Shiite creed.


Unlike the hundreds of others in the region who knowingly volunteered for an explosive death, Amar died because he did not know. He had Down syndrome.

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[Moooooo]

Thats sad...

[phk]

A harbinger of things to come.

[KEmperor]

What a horrible act.