Via Reuters: Suicide bomber lures Iraqis to their deaths

A suicide bomber lured a crowd of Shi’ite day laborers to his minivan and blew it up, killing 114 people and wounding more than 156 in Baghdad’s old town on Wednesday, Iraq’s second deadliest car bombing since war began.

The bomber drew the men to his vehicle with promises of work before detonating the bomb, which contained up to 500 lbs (220 kilos) of explosives, an Interior Ministry source said.

Sad and astounding. I really can’t comprehend the mentality that goes into an attack like this. “Ok, I’ll go promise a bunch of desperate people that we have jobs for them. Then, once they are in a contained space, you will blow yourself up in the car packed with explosive. It will be glorious!”

And, a good question:

“There’s no political party here, there are no police,” Mohammed Jabbar railed at the scene. “This targeted civilians, innocents. Why women and children?” he added, as bystanders shouted, “Why? Why?”