I see no basis for accepting the line that the man in the minibus detonated the explosives. Most likely he was himself a dupe just like all the other victims--he didn't know the van was rigged to explode on a remote signal. And in considering responsibility for this and many similar atrocities we must remember that Iraq is crawling with mercenaries, all of them hired killers, many of them--veterans of the South African and Central American counterrevolutions--among the worst fascist terrorists in the world. And we must also remember that, just before the atrocities pitting Shia and Sunni against each other began in earnest, the US press was reporting discussion among "counterinsurgency experts" of the "Salvador Option." When anyone says that the slaughter is merely an "indirect" effect of the Occupation, remember that phrase: Salvador Option.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos