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To: vox_PL

Though I am "disgusting" I do have a basis for comparing the way Muslim terror operates in Iraq, Chechnya and the world over. Here is one comparison.

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Since at least 2000, there has been a gradual progression of suicide attacks conducted by Muslim women in new theaters of operation, including Uzbekistan, Egypt, and more recently, Iraq [2]. The attack in Talafar, northern Iraq, by a female suicide bomber came as a surprise, but was predictable. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the latest coup de main at an army recruitment center on September 28, 2005 by a “blessed sister.” The Iraqi woman stood among job applicants before detonating; a similar tactic was used by women in the Irish Republican Army, who carried bombs beneath their clothing feigning pregnancy or wheeling weapons in baby carriages. The attack in late September was not the first by an Iraqi woman; in April 2003, two women, one pretending to be pregnant, blew up a car at a coalition checkpoint, killing three soldiers [3]. Although attacks by women in Iraq are still a relatively new trend, women will likely play a wider role in operations where jihad mobilizes an entire population against a clear aggressor. That leaves Iraq vulnerable to attacks by female suicide bombers in the near future.

http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369824

Q: Do women ever become suicide bombers?

A. Yes. Women have carried out around one-third of the LTTE’s suicide attacks in Sri Lanka and two-thirds of the PKK’s in Turkey. Women bombers in Chechnya, known as the "Black Widows," have been particularly effective. All of the groups, along with the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, have used seemingly pregnant women to get past security checks on the way to their targets. In January 2002, Palestinian secular groups began using women bombers; within a year, the militant Islamic groups jumped on the bandwagon. Al Qaeda has yet to use women although it has established a new website (Al Khansa) intended to mobilize and encourage female participation.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/publicity/bloomqa.pdf


398 posted on 11/23/2005 12:44:48 PM PST by dervish (no excuse s)
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