Call It What It Is
Suicide Blast at Iraq Gas Station Kills 54
An insurgent suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body Saturday, triggering a huge explosion at a gas station near a mosque south of Baghdad and killing at least 54 people. The attack capped a string of three major bombings over the past four days that killed at least 120.
Police Capt. Muthanna Khaled Ali and Dr. Adel Malallah of the Jumhuri General Hospital in Hillah, the provincial capital, said the gas station blast in Musayyib, about 40 miles south of Baghdad, killed 54 and wounded at least 82 others. In Baghdad, the Interior Ministry put the casualty count at 51 dead and 82 wounded, but the report was believed based on a preliminary count.
Witnesses and police said the fuel tanker was moving slowly toward the pumps when an attacker ran to it and detonated his charge. A cluster of houses near the city-center gas station caught fire, the witnesses said. Gasoline stations in Iraq routinely include a number of small businesses selling tea, soft drinks and snacks and are often crowded with people.
Mussayib, a religiously mixed town along the Euphrates River, sits in the “triangle of death,” an area so-named because of the large number of kidnappings and killings of Shiite Muslims traveling between Baghdad and the Shiite holy cities of Karbala and Najaf.
Why not just call these types of people what they are – - Murderers.
How about if the mainstream media were to say it how it really is. For example:
“A murderer detonated explosives strapped to his body and in cold blood murdered 54 innocent people.”
Is that too much reality for the average news viewer? I think not.
July 16, 2005 - 08:25 PM on July 16th, 2005
Isn’t suicide where one kills themself?
July 16, 2005 - 08:26 PM on July 16th, 2005
Excellent point, peejz – - which is another reason why they should be called murderers – - that is clearly what they are
July 17, 2005 - 07:42 AM on July 17th, 2005
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Jo’s Cafe links this story at Sunday Linking Love.
http://joscafe.com/2005/07/17/sunday-linking-love/