[Cindy]

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"TERROR WAS HER PENANCE" (Female Homicide Bomber)
New York Post ^ | 1/19/04 | URI DAN


Posted on 01/19/2004 12:48:19 AM PST by kattracks


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "January 19, 2004 -- JERUSALEM - Her lover fitted her with the explosives belt and her husband drove her to the checkpoint where she would blow up herself and four Israelis - because she had to do "penance" for being an adulteress, Israeli officials said yesterday. The 22-year-old Palestinian bomber who shocked even hard-core Israeli terror experts by becoming the first Hamas woman and mother to pull off the terror tactic Wednesday had figured that the attack was the best way to try to restore her prominent family's badly tarnished honor, the officials said.

The tortured young mom, Marim Aryechi, also knew that according to strict Islamic tradition, she would be killed for her sin anyway.

By turning herself into a human bomb and taking as many Israelis as she could with her, at least she might be elevated to "martyr" status in the twisted eyes of her Muslim militant leaders, Israeli officials said."

[Pro-Bush]

Interesting events in the sky this evening.

Two die of illnesses on flight from Miami to London

Subscription only - Los Angeles Times (subscription) - 35 minutes ago A jet traveling from Frankfurt, Germany, to Atlanta made an emergency landing in Ireland because of a bomb threat, but a search turned up nothing.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. is detaining a Saudi man in Cuba who is believed to be the intended 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror plot, sources said yesterday. The Al Qaeda agent, identified by officials only as al-Qahtani, was intercepted in August 2001 by an alert Customs inspector at the Orlando airport but wasn't held, sources said.

[Mrs. Xtrmst]

I had wondered if it was her husband's will rather than her own. Didn't about this particular angle though. So sad.