Arrest Made In Horrific Bagdad Down's Syndrome Bombings

An arrest has been made in the horrific dual bombings in Baghdad that killed dozens and wounded still more. The person arrested may be the one who recruited the two women, both afflicted with Down's syndrome. He's the acting director of the psychiatric hospital where they had received treatment in the past.

The acting director of a Baghdad psychiatric hospital has been arrested on suspicion of supplying al-Qaeda in Iraq with the mentally impaired women that it used to blow up two crowded animal markets in the city on February 1, killing about 100 people.

Iraqi security forces and US soldiers arrested the man at al-Rashad hospital in east Baghdad on Sunday. They then spent three hours searching his office and removing records. Sources told The Times that the two women bombers had been treated at the hospital in the past.

“They [the security forces] arrested the acting director, accusing him of working with al-Qaeda and recruiting mentally ill women and using them in suicide bombing operations,” a hospital official said.

This doctor, who is supposed to be caring for people and making them well, saw the Down's syndrome women as perfectly suitable for bombing missions for al Qaeda because they possessed the perfect traits for such a mission.

They lacked the capacity to understand what they were supposed to do and what was to happen to them, and that security wouldn't think to consider them a threat since they were women.

While much of the media loves to follow the meme that jihadis and terrorists in general are poor thugs who simply lack economic opportunity, the fact is that the terrorist leadership is among the more educated classes in the Middle East - they're doctors, engineers, and professionals. Indeed, many of the most heinous Islamic terrorists are doctors, including Zawahiri of al Qaeda, Hamas has Zahar (and had Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi), among others.

The bombings in the UK last year were tied to a group of Muslim doctors.

There are ongoing concerns that doctors may attempt to murder people by purposefully injecting dangerous substances or even air into patients so as to cause strokes or death.

It shouldn't be surprising that doctors are among the jihadis, but it is unsettling nonetheless because of their creed to do no harm and to preserve life.

Hat Tip: Hot Air.