KILLING THEIR OWN

Stories like this offer lucid arguments that an evil bloodthirst, not an ideaology or logic governs these miscreants.

Arab insurgents fired a fusillade of mortars on the coalition-controlled Abu Ghraib Prison on Tuesday, killing 22 Iraqi captives held in razor-wire-ringed tent camps and wounding 92 others.

The attack was puzzling to U.S. military commanders, who consider the 4,400 so-called "security detainees" to be anti-American insurgents, some of whom are suspected of launching similar mortar and missile attacks.

Marines helped evacuate wounded prisoners. Twenty-five of the most seriously injured were taken by helicopter to two U.S. military field hospitals, one of which is inside the Green Zone, which houses coalition headquarters...

"Our guys scratch their heads and say, `Why would they be shelling their own people, killing their own people?'" Kimmitt said several hours after the attack.