The Times | April 3, 2007 | Lorry bomb kills children in school | James Hider in Baghdad
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The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was starting to show signs of progress.
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Mr McCain said that the situation was showing signs of improvement and blamed waning support in the United States for the war on the media, which were portraying an overly negative image of the crisis.
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Thank-you for this article. I hope it circulates in the U.S. I want everyone to see just how costly the photo-op in the shopping market has turned out to be. John McCain was probably going to use the footage as pro-Iraq-occupation propaganda, but how would he dare now after the market workers caught on that footage were murdered the next day? The political B.S. has got to stop.
Karen Warren, Madison Heights, Michigan, United States
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