Simple ideas can have such a devastating impact

Much has been made of the inability of powerful conventional armies to combat insurgents.

The Sunday Times ran a short article yesterday about a boy, who normally works as a porter, who was paid what he normally makes in a week to simply deposit a light bag into a spot at a crowded market. It then exploded, shattering his foot and killing 3 people.

I always wonder, why hasn't this been a tactic before? So simple and effective, and almost impossible to gaurd against, particularly in a country where public awareness campaigns are difficult to mount thanks to illiteracy, poverty, distrust of the government and lack of coordination within the government.