NO WAY.

No way even the worst terrorist would stoop to booby trapping kids' toys. Just can't be.

Posted by: Jim at November 26, 2005 3:06 PM

Apparently, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent won't allow Israel to enter with the Star of David as their medical symbol:

So instead they have to use the Red Crystal of healing? Hmm, sounds a little too California.

Posted by: sanman at November 26, 2005 3:19 PM

You are so right, Jim, why use booby trapped toys and deny to themselves the personal pleasure of hacking the kids to death by one's own hand as they did Beslan.

Posted by: Lisa at November 26, 2005 5:45 PM

No way even the worst terrorist would stoop to booby trapping kids' toys. Just can't be.

Jim, I heard that the Soviets did just that in Afghanistan to intimidate the population. They would drop these toys from helicopters and would explode when played with or picked up, killing or maiming the victim. Anybody want to confirm or deny this?

Posted by: Joseph D'Hippolito at November 26, 2005 6:54 PM

And the aim was clearly to have the American soldiers blamed by making sure the dolls in question were the very kinds handed out by the Americans -- in fact, they may have been deliberately taken from children to whom they had been previously handed out, or taken from an American army truck or supply depot, for that very purpose. Why be surprised?

Posted by: Hugh at November 26, 2005 7:12 PM

Dead wrong Joe it was the heroic mujahideen that made the explosive dolls. It was the exact same ploy as they are using now. Russians give out toys heroic muslims booby trap some of the toys and the children die. Then the rest of the muslim population get mad at Russians. Think about it. Exactly what strategic advantage does it give you to booby trap toys and kill innocent children? This tactic of being nice to children, or giving out gifts when invading a country goes back ages. Only heroic Mujahideen have ever attempted to turn it against the infidel by booby trapping the gifts.

Posted by: SnowDawg at November 26, 2005 7:16 PM

It does not surprise me at all. In Elsevier, a dutch weekly, there is an article about asylumseekers in Sweden. Around 450 of them are suspected by the swedish gouvernement of poisening their childeren in order to get a residence permit on humanitarian grounds. They are not suspected of killing their own childeren, but of making them sick (killing them would not help to get a permit!). And those people are not even considered terrorists, so what to expect from people who are?
Sweden, which is a (over) hospitable and PC country, granted permits on humanitarian grounds to asylymseekers with sick childeren. Soon after word got out, lots of childeren became ill.

For Dutch-reading readers her the link (the story is so unbelievable that I do not expect you to take my word for it.
[url]http://www.elsevier.nl/nieuws/buitenland/nieuwsbericht/asp/artnr/75301/index.html/url]

Posted by: Ernst at November 26, 2005 11:47 PM

Ah yes. Islam, the religion of peace, tolerance and murdering children.........

Posted by: Bohemond_1069 at November 27, 2005 12:15 AM

"Exactly what strategic advantage does it give you to booby trap toys and kill innocent children?"

Snowdawg, the strategic advantage is that if they are willing to terrorize the most innocent among us then they send the cold blooded message that they will stop at nothing to achieve their goals. If we can't fathom anyone doing what they do every day and become frozen in fear, then their strategic advantage of endless, non-stop, terminal terror will eventually wear us down and they will win.

I wonder what their women think of this practice? "Please honey, don't blow up anymore kids today, okay?" I'm going to throw up.

Posted by: Isabellathecrusader at November 27, 2005 12:55 AM

I see the reticence to confront Islam in the West as the result of a combination of moral turpitude, fear, inertia and distaste at the prospect of confronting yet another bunch of idiots in yet another world conflict.
There might even be a little 'turning the other cheek' involved as well...but not much.

Islam sees this inactivity and perceiving the West as weak is emboldened to commit yet more depravities in the name of Allah, aka Satan.
The buildup of tension is akin to the massive forces at work in converging tectonic plates.

What on earth will happen when that all that tension is released?

Posted by: Mike_W at November 27, 2005 1:46 AM

"Exactly what strategic advantage does it give you to booby trap toys and kill innocent children?" put two and two together: "This is the same type of doll as that handed out on several occasions by US soldiers to children," They want to kill the children and blame it on American soldiers, spread hatred and distrust of all Americans and fan the fires of jihad worldwide......

Posted by: Bohemond_1069 at November 27, 2005 3:03 AM

Holy f**ck Isabel and Bohemond_1069 you have to read my post again, carefully! I was tying to point out to Joseph D'Hippolito that the Russians did NOT booby trap toys. My question as to the “strategic advantage” is regarding the Russians, and assuming Joseph D'Hippolito’s assertion that, the Russians had booby-trapped toys in Afghanistan, is true. I was trying to point out to, Joseph D'Hippolito, that there is no strategic advantage for the RUSSIANS to have done this. It is painfully obvious why the muslims are doing this and it is also clear that there is a pattern here.

Posted by: SnowDawg at November 27, 2005 4:52 AM

"Iraq seizes booby-trapped toys"

It's beinning to look a lot like Christmas!

Beware of Muslims bearing gifts. Oh -- and I would add -- beware of Muslims in general... They have betrayed themselves too often now to be considered without a huge dose of suspicion and doubt. Too often now we have observed them to be traitorously spreading hatred and sedition in our lands... Now they would add explosive rigged toys to their ever increasing bag of malignant tricks...

Posted by: jsla at November 27, 2005 3:01 PM

People who believes this kind of twisted crazy theories shows the same stupidity than the people who believes the 11/9 attacks were made by the american government and al-qaeda doesnt exist.

Try to make the iraq people think that the US army give their children trap dolls... OMG

Posted by: Ispanan at November 27, 2005 6:03 PM

The Russians did use booby-trapped toys in Afghanistan. As I recall it, they were called "secondary impact" devices. The first "impact" is when the toy is dropped, the second when the child makes contact.

Posted by: James Ph. at November 27, 2005 9:14 PM

"The Russians did use booby-trapped toys in Afghanistan."

Next time tell that to your leftist friends when they're criticizing the US for using the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan to defeat the Soviets...

Posted by: jsla at November 27, 2005 9:32 PM

"The Russians did use booby-trapped toys in Afghanistan."

Yes they also opened the womb of pregnant afgan women to take their babies so they wouldnt have to fight the next generation of afgans, I saw it in Rambo. Thanks gods the US never commited any crimes any innocents!

"Next time tell that to your leftist friends when they're criticizing the US for using the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan to defeat the Soviets..."

And tell your right winged friends about how you are fighting the same people they helped fight the soviets.

Posted by: Ispanan at November 28, 2005 12:16 PM

from post above:

"they also opened the womb of pregnant afgan women to take their babies so they wouldnt have to fight the next generation of afgans..."

Tell me again -- Where did "they" take the babies? Who are you referring to when you say "they?" The pregnant Aghan women, or the Soviets? Or are you trying to suggest that the pregnant Afghan women were going to fight their babies (the next generation of Afghans?) Or are you suggesting the babies in the wombs would grow up to fight the next generation of Afghans? In that case, wouldn't the babies BE the next generation of Afghans? It is very confusing...

And as for "right winged friends" -- is this some kind of crude reference to persons missing an arm? It is very confusing...

Posted by: jsla at November 29, 2005 1:56 PM