US soldiers killed handing footballs to Iraqi children

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/November/focusoniraq_November77.xml§ion=focusoniraq

19 November 2007


BAGHDAD - Three American soldiers killed in the Iraqi city of Baquba were targeted by a suicide bomber as they handed out footballs and toys to children, a US military official said on Monday.

The US military announced on Sunday that the soldiers were killed in a “suicide vest attack” in Baquba, but gave no other details.

Major Peggy Kageleiry, spokeswoman for the military, said on Monday the soldiers were killed while they were walking among children in the restive city about 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of Baghdad.

“They were handing out soccer balls and stuffed animals to children next to a school yard when someone walked up and detonated himself,” she said.

[soothsayer]

1. sucks

[ChazII]

2. RIP.

The soldiers that is.

[tuckessee]

7. Yeah, screw the dead kids chummed up as human sheilds.... n/t

[BoneDaddy]

3. RIP

good men.

[chelaque liberal]

4. What happened to the children?

I couldn't open the link. Does it say what happened to the children?

This is so painful.

[flashl]

6. Here's the rest of the article ...

“The only evidence of this we have so far is forensic found by EOD (explosive ordnance department). EOD investigated the scene afterward and determined that one of the dead was wearing a detonated suicide vest.”

Kageleiry stressed however there were no actual witness accounts of a person blowing himself up.

On Sunday, Baquba police Colonel Hazim Yasin said three people, including two children playing football, were killed in Baquba in a roadside bomb attack at a football ground.

He said another six children were wounded.

It was still unclear whether the two attacks were one and the same.

Bring our troops home!

[NNN0LHI]

5. With a 60% unemployment rate in Iraq you would think Bush could hire some of them to hand out toys

I wonder why Bush doesn't do that?

Don