Yesterday, the world's biggest cowards carried out a series of bombings in Baghdad. They were timed so that the second went off as rescue and emergency personnel arrived to deal with the carnage, and the third targeted medical and emergency personnel and victims arriving at the hospital. These worms are repositories of the worst kind of cowardice, and instruments of the most hypocritical and vile form of religious extremism. Words cannot express how grateful I am that there are Heroes who meet this enemy head on.


A man sifts through the wreckage of a bus destroyed by two car bombs at a bus terminal in central Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 17, 2005. Terrorists carried out multiple suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attacks. Attacks occurred in a bus terminal, outside the terminal and then at the hospital where the casualties were taken for treatment. U.S. Army photo


Local residents examine the wreckage of vehicles in the aftermath of two car bomb attacks at a bus terminal in central Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 17, 2005. Terrorists carried out multiple suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attacks. Attacks occurred in a bus terminal, outside the terminal and then at the hospital where the casualties were taken for treatment. U.S. Army photo


Local residents examine the wreckage of vehicles in the aftermath of two car bomb attacks at a bus terminal in central Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 17, 2005. Terrorists carried out multiple suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attacks. Attacks occurred in a bus terminal, outside the terminal and then at the hospital where the casualties were taken for treatment. U.S. Army photo


Buses parked near a terminal in central Baghdad were destroyed by two car bombs, Aug. 17, 2005. Terrorists carried out multiple suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attacks. Attacks occurred in a bus terminal, outside the terminal and then at the hospital where the casualties were taken for treatment. U.S. Army photo