An Iraqi pyschiatric hospital director has been arrested on suspicion of supplying al Qaeda with mentally challenged female suicide bombers who blew up animal markets on February 1st. From FOX News:

The acting director of a Baghdad psychiatric hospital has been arrested on suspicion of supplying Al Qaeda in Iraq with the mentally impaired women it used to blow up two crowded animal markets in the city on Feb. 1, killing about 100 people.

Iraqi security forces and U.S. soldiers arrested the man at al-Rashad hospital in east Baghdad on Sunday. They then spent three hours searching his office and removing records. Sources told The Times that the two female bombers had been treated at the hospital in the past.

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The attraction of mentally impaired women to Al Qaeda was obvious, he said. Being women they could get close to targets with less chance of being stopped or searched; being mentally impaired, they were “less likely to make a rational judgment about what they are being asked to do.”

The Feb. 1 attacks were the deadliest — and most chilling — to hit the Iraqi capital in months. One of the women was given a backpack full of explosives and ballbearings, the other a suicide vest laden with explosives. They were sent into the middle of al-Ghazl and New Baghdad markets, which were packed with people. Their explosives were then detonated by remote control.

The Times was shown photographs of the two young women’s severed heads, which were recovered from the wreckage. One very obviously had Down syndrome. The other had the round face, high forehead and other features often associated with Down syndrome, but her symptoms were less pronounced.

This is beyond sick. These people have to be stopped.