The BBC tonight is all over the story of today's awful suicide bombing in Baghdad in which more than 70 people were killed.
The Beeb is particularly playing up the angle that the female bombers were "mentally disabled," leading tonight's ten o'clock news with the story.
The New York Times isn't so sure, noting that:
Maj. Gen. Abdul Kareem al-Ezzi, a senior officer in the Ministry of Interior police commandos, said officials at the Ghazil market had scrutinized the suicide bomber’s head and concluded that she had Downs Syndrome. However Iraqi officials have made similar claims in the past, and other witnesses said her head could have been distorted by the blast.
My question for the BBC is: aren't all suicide bombers, by definition, mentally disabled?
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