OK, so it happens, and has happened elsewhere....doesnt make it any less sickening.
Edit: BTW Chairboy, I am not so indoctrinated as to believe that Iraqi=Terrorist, I fully realise that all of them arent.
My point is that enough of them are tollerated within and by the general Iraqi society to allow the people of Iraq to have reason to fear them in a situation such as this.
To me there is something fundamentally wrong there that no amount of outside influence will ever fix or change, it is something the Iraqi people must decide to do and must change themselves....namely by making it widely known that suicide bombers will recieve no glory, and in fact will actually inflict missery and suffering on their own families, ensuring their alienation from the community.
Perhaps if instead of "If I blow myself up, I will be a martyr" was changed to "If I blow myself up, my father will be stoned to death, my mother will have to beg for food and my young syblings will allmost certainly die" things might be differant.
That and wtf were they doing taking kids to a religeous gathering where this was not only possible but likely to happen.
If your religeon is strong enough to dictate mandatory attendance, you would think it would be strong enough to garuntee safety among one's peers.
