Boston attacks are reminder of violence elsewhere

By Adam Schreck
Published April 16, 2013 4:00am ET
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Boston attacks are reminder of violence elsewhere
An Iraqi man inspects the aftermath of a car bomb attack at a used cars dealers parking lot in Habibiya neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Less than a week before Iraqis in much of the country are scheduled to vote in the country's first elections since the 2011 U.S. troop withdrawal, a series of attacks across Iraq on Monday, many involving car bombs, has killed and wounded dozens of people, police said. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim) | Karim Kadim

BAGHDAD (AP) — The blasts that struck the Boston Marathon on Monday were shocking not only for their brazenness and the lives they shattered, but also because attacks like this usually happen in far-off, troubled places — not in the middle of a major American city.

As the chief of emergency services at Massachusetts General Hospital, Alasdair Conn, put it: “This is what we expect from war.”

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