10 doctors killed in Iraq

[sabra]

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1751963,00.html

10 doctors killed in Iraq

Karbala - Unidentified gunmen ambushed a group of doctors on their way to help at hospitals, west of Baghdad, killing 10 of them, said medical sources on Wednesday.

The sources said the physicians were travelling to the city of Ramadi when armed men intercepted their vehicle on Tuesday evening.

[hadrons]

1. so rightwingers, where's the good news in this????

you saved a bunch of money on you car insurance by switching to Geico

[ugarte]

2. Yeah, how come the media never show the good news?

All the doctors that haven't gotten killed yet.

[Coexist]

3. Yes - where are cute photos of living Dr.s handing out candy and

deflated soccer balls to happy Iraqi children.
Darned liberal media.

[SoCalDem]

4. Don't forget the little girls' pencils..

even though they probably are too scared to try to go to school these days:(

[Igel]

6. Of course, it's not just RWers that need a dose of reality.

They're not insurgents, they're freedom fighters ... they only target collaborators.

Ahem.

On edit: I guess the appropriate response is to say that it was actually an American CIA black ops death squad of doom that did this. The only evidence is, of course, that we believe freedom fighters couldn't have done it.

[barb162]

8. what country needs "freedom fighters" like this?

[Igel]

15. That's sort of my snarky point.

The people claiming the 'insurgency' is a 'resistance' composed of 'freedom fighters' have, of late, tapered off.

Actually, I was vaguely hoping this thread would address address why doctors are so often hit. Pakistan had a string of sectarian homicides which seemed largely to hit doctors.

[Supersedeas]

5. Last throes

[Barrett808]

7. No surprise that the brain drain continues n/t

[saigon68]

9. WHERE ARE THE INCUBATORS?

[bbgrunt]

10. who benefits from this?

Would insurgents be so stupid to involve itself in something that would outrage Muslims?

I think this was predicted--more false flag attacks.

[Henny Penny]

11. If the attackers knew they were doctors...

it was probably designed to turn local people away from supporting the insurgents.

[barb162]

12. Maybe baathists

who don't want the current government to succeed.

Beside this horrible story, what about the stories where suicide bombers just blow themselve up in town squares? There are no US soldiers around, no major infrastructure to mess up like bridges, pipelines, etc. It seems their only immediate goal is to kill, hurt and scare a lot of Iraqis. False flag wouldn't apply to those types of attacks, right?

[JohnnyBoots]

13. The love of my life is a D.O. in the Navy, this makes me shudder.

[Roland99]

14. This is why we're taking the fight to the terrorists

or something.