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August 8, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/08/international/worldspecial/08ASSE.html

Baghdad Bombing Shifts the Focus to Soft Targets

(New York Times) - The car bomb that ripped apart the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad Thursday was not directed against well-armed American forces but against what the military calls a soft target, a highly vulnerable and undefended structure. The goal was not to alter the military equation but to punish a foreign government and produce a large number of civilian casualties.

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