Why Not Blow Up the Crime Lab?!

So appar­ently the foren­sic sci­ence sys­tem in Iraq is such a threat to crim­i­nals, they have taken to blow­ing up the crime lab.

A sui­cide car bomber has killed at least 18 peo­ple and injured 80 at a gov­ern­ment foren­sics cen­tre in the Iraqi cap­i­tal Baghdad, police say.

The attacker appar­ently tried to drive through a police check­point and blast walls pro­tect­ing the cen­tre in the Kerrada district.

The build­ing was badly dam­aged by the mas­sive blast, and the rub­ble is being searched by res­cue teams.

On Monday, bomb attacks near well-known hotels in the city killed 36 people.

This is the lat­est in a series of attacks on offi­cial build­ings, includ­ing those to do with crime and punishment.

The jus­tice min­istry was badly dam­aged in October by a huge truck bomb, and a court com­plex was hit in December.

There have been fears that attacks will increase as the par­lia­men­tary elec­tion approaches in March and those pre­dic­tions seem to be com­ing true, the BBC’s Jim Muir reports from Baghdad.

I guess one way to try and escape the rule of law is to blow up the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem. Albeit a bit barbaric.

Original arti­cle on the BBC News website.