Over 600 Iraqi Shi’ites were killed in a stampede after someone shouted “SUICIDE BOMBER!”
Witnesses said the stampede started after someone screamed that a suicide bomber was in the crowd of pilgrims heading to the Kadhimiya mosque in northern Baghdad.
A railing on the bridge then collapsed under the crush of people, and hundreds fell to their deaths in the Tigris River about 30 meters (yards) below, CNN’s Jennifer Eccleston reported.
According to police, some people were crushed to death but most drowned. Emergency crews rushed the wounded to five hospitals as relatives at the riverbank searched for their kin.
Kinda makes Pamplona seem like child’s play in comparison, eh?
I’m really not sure what to think of that. My immediate natural response is not fit to put here, and I feel very guilty for even thinking it. Very guilty.
I’m sure the ACLU will defend the perpetrator’s right to free speech in this case, especially if he yelled “F..k Bush!” immediately afterward…
Pomoze Bog.
Tsar Lazar
Laurence, it took a few minutes, but the title to this post absolutely cracks me up. I’m sorry that many people perished in such a terrible tragedy, but the title itself was definitely a classic.
“but the title itself was definitely a classic”
Hmmmmm, yes…he seems to suggest that the Shi’ites produce a lot of bull…t.
Pomoze Bog.
Tsar Lazar
Over 800 dead now.
How is it that a real suicide bomber only kills a dozen or so in Israel, but a fake one kills over 800 in Iraq?
If it had been Sunnis, they probably would have been stampeded trying to find the bomber in order to shake his hand.
There’s a reason there’s a “Laurence Simon Sick And Twisted Bastard” prize.
It’s where you’re a little ashamed that you just laughed.
Can I say bastard here?