Elsewhere in the world..

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Behold the power of the word over that of the sword. Over 1,000 civilians violently killed in Baghdad in a panicked stampede due to a rumor of a suicide bomber. Why kill a few dozen and yourself when you can incite them to slaughter themselves.

Whether intended to cause the destruction it did, I suspect it was some particularly clever bastard.

Al Jazeera

CNN