Unconnected dots

There's been lots of heat in the press from the know-nothings over whether coalition forces were too trigger happy when they fired at a car full of ransom-paying terrorist financial enablers Italians carrying a freshly liberated living, breathing certified check Italian beneficiary of wealth acquired via capitalist enterprise communist journalist.

But buried in this CNN story is information that by firing on a suspicious vehicle, Iraqi security forces actually caused a truck bomb to detonate prematurely, and thereby preventing the terrorists from blowing up an entire hotel.

In central Baghdad, meanwhile, a suicide bomber driving a garbage truck detonated early Wednesday near the Ministry of Agriculture, killing two people and wounding 22 others, emergency police said. The bomber also died in the attack.

According to police, the truck was approaching the hotel through a courtyard when ministry security officers became suspicious and opened fire on it, causing it to detonate.

URL: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/03/09/iraq.main/index.html

Of course, even though CNN mentions both the truck bomb and the Italians, they don't bother to make the connection.

Splash, out

Jason