To Be Announced...

We read constantly about the latest bomb attacks and so forth in Iraq, but none of the context of the real stories. One of the websites which I frequent is Michael Yon's Online Magazine and his Frontline Forum.

As described, it's "...an alternative channel for compelling stories from those now wearing boots and carrying rifles..."

In the latest installment, he tells the whole story behind yet another bombing attack. One that simply is reported as "another bomb attack" by the media. The context of the story should also be told, but we have a lazy media...apparently uninterested in investigating and retelling these kinds of stories:

He was dressed as a woman as he walked down the alley toward the mosque full of worshippers. The bomb strapped to his body was studded with ball-bearings so that he could kill more villagers as they gathered for prayer...There were no soldiers in his path to stop him; no police to alert to the man in women’s clothes. There were only villagers...As the murderer dressed in women’s clothes walked purposefully toward his target, there was a village man ahead...and he, too, had his target in sight. [He] had seen through the disguise, but he had no gun. No bomb. No rocket. No stone. No time.

You'll have to read the rest of the story find out what happened (link goes direct). Because you won't find the details in any of the mainstream media's reports. It's extraordinary and compelling even in the little detail that Michael Yon gives it.

I'd urge you to send your friends to the link as well. Maybe we can get Governor Culver to lower the flags to half-staff for this kind of sacrifice also.

The article is appropriately called, "The Hands of God"

After reading it...I have no other words to pass on. Just a confirmed understanding of why we're in Iraq.

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