Iraq: exploding head "a symbol of optimism"

washingtonpost: "Take him down," Ruiz told a sniper. The sniper fired his powerful M-14 rifle and the man's head exploded, several American soldiers recalled. As he fell, more soldiers opened fire, killing at least one other insurgent. After the ambush, the Americans scooped up a piece of skull and took it back to their base as evidence of the successful mission.

Born arrived to find parts of the bomber's body scattered in all directions. His initial reaction, he said, was "euphoric" - relief that none of his men had been killed or badly injured. Of the bomber, he said, "I felt absolutely nothing."

[..] The March 12 attack - swift and brutally violent - bore the hallmarks of operations that have made Ruiz, 39, a former Brooklyn gang member, renowned among U.S. troops in Mosul and, in many ways, a symbol of the optimism that has pervaded the military since Iraq's Jan. 30 elections. Link

[DB:] Nice - if that's optimism give me pessimism any day. The Washington Post has been taken over by a cult, and the article was written by a cu*t.