Because after all, George Washington was known for intentionally targeting children with explosives hidden among toys.\

A bomb hidden in a cart of toys killed two children and wounded 17 others in a playground in northern Iraq on Friday, the first day of a national holiday to celebrate the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The attack came the day after U.S. forces killed nine children and six women in an air strike northwest of Baghdad targeting suspected al Qaeda leaders. The U.N. mission in Iraq urged U.S. forces to conduct a "vigorous" probe into the strike.

Police Colonel Abbas Mohammed said a would-be suicide bomber pushed the cart into a play area in the predominantly Shi'ite northern town of Tuz Khurmato. He said the bomber was wounded.

The town's mayor, Mohammed Rasheed, told Reuters two boys aged between 10 and 12 had died and another 17 people under the age of 18 had been wounded in the deadly attack.

Utterly despicable – and sadly typical of the civilized world fights.

I love the little moral equivalency dig in this piece, though. After all, the air strike was targeted at terrorists, with unfortunate civilian casualties. On the other hand, this attack was intentionally directed against the children of Baghdad. Anyone with a moral compass would recognize that the two incidents are not even remotely comparable – which may explain why the al-Reuters report includes such a comparison

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