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A suicide attacker steered a car packed with explosives toward U.S. soldiers giving away toys to children outside a hospital in central Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 31 people. Almost all of the victims were women and children, police said.

I'll let the words of one victim speak more eloquently than I can.

The suicide bomber in Mahmoudiya was targeting U.S. military vehicles parked near the hospital, said Iraqi army Capt. Ibrahim Abdeallah. He said two U.S. soldiers were wounded and one Humvee damaged.

The U.S. soldiers were distributing toys to children in the hospital, said police Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi.

Dr. Osama Kassab of Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital said there were 23 injured and three dead at his facility. It was not clear if these were in addition to the dead and wounded cited by the doctor in Mahmoudiya.

"It was an explosion at the gate of the hospital," said one woman who had wounds on her face and legs. "My children are gone. My brother is gone."

They targeted women and children who wanted nothing more than toys.

Evil. Evil. Evil.

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