An excerpt from the AP story on the horrific violence in Iraq today, as posted at Yahoo News:

...The bloodshed began when a bomber entered the vestibule of al-Khadimain mosque in the Iraqi capital's Doura neighborhood and detonated his explosives as worshippers prayed, witness Hussein Rahim Qassim said....

The imam at the al-Khadimain mosque used the minaret's loudspeakers to appeal for blood donations, said 1st Lt. Ahmad Ali, who added that a suicide bomber was behind the blast....

An excerpt from the same AP story, as posted at Fox News:

...The bloodshed began when a bomber entered the vestibule of al-Khadimain mosque in the Iraqi capital's Doura neighborhood and detonated his explosives as worshippers prayed, witness Hussein Rahim Qassim said....

The imam at the al-Khadimain mosque used the minaret's loudspeakers to appeal for blood donations, said 1st Lt. Ahmad Ali, who added that a homicide bomber was behind the blast....

(Emphasis mine.)

I've pointed this out before, but the stupidity of it never ceases to amaze me: Fox News has a ban on the use of "suicide bomber" and "suicide bombing" -- based on, I guess, the asinine premise that the word "suicide" will induce sympathy.

The problem with this is that you already know the thing is a goddamn "homicide bombing" -- fifteen people died -- but you don't know that the bomber blew himself up without the word "suicide."

By the way, does the word "suicide" make you want to shed a tear for a guy who blows himself up in a crowd of innocent civilians?

Me either.

Stupid Fox schmucks.