Suicide Bombers Kill At Least 25 in Iraq

According to this report, terrorists targeted Iraqi police in two separate attacks earlier today. At least 12 policemen were murdered and four were wounded in a suicide attack at a hospital complex in Mosul. They had gathered to be paid. According to a statement posted on the Internet, the attack was carried out by "a lion from the martyrs brigade of the Al-Qaeda Group of Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers," an arm of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's organization of thugs.

Meanwhile, as men lined up to join the police force in the city of Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, a suicide car-bomber drove up and detonated. Thirteen are reported to have been murdered.

Worthy of mention is that among the media reports cited above, not one refers to the suicide bombers as anything harsher than militants or insurgents. Note to the BBC, News.com.au, and the AFP:

If it looks like a murdering terrorist thug, and
It acts like a murdering terrorist thug, and
It boasts about being a murdering terrorist thug, then
By any reasonable measure of truth and accuracy,
It is a murdering terrorist thug.

It is not a militant nor an insurgent nor a locomotive nor a box of hammers nor a duck. It is a murdering terrorist thug.

Be aware that the first time one of your newsrooms decides to start being accurate in describing circumstances, everybody involved will be hailed as courageous visionaries destined for professional accolades and to be written about in journalism textbooks for centuries. Alternatively, though, journalists that do speak up may just be fired, but at least they will be able to walk away secure in the knowledge that the spineless jokers they left behind continue to believe that colder winters are caused by global warming.

[Update] Jeff Quinton reports the death toll has reached 26.