Posted on 12/03/2005 9:58:13 PM PST by jmc1969
Very little is known about the first woman to become a suicide bomber for Al Qaeda in Iraq, except that she dressed as a man. The clothes concealed the explosives strapped around her womb. "May God accept our sister among the martyrs," said a Web site linked to the organization of Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi. She had defended "her faith and her honor."
Never before had any branch of Al Qaeda sent a woman on a suicide mission. Zarqawi broke the taboos.
Zarqawi recruits where he can, he exploits whom he can and he attacks the softest of targets to get the peculiar kind of publicity he craves. Women are his new weapon of choice.
In October, Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed that a second female bomber, this time accompanied by her husband, killed herself attacking an American patrol in Mosul.
In a letter written from hiding by Ayman Al-Zawahiri last summer, and meant for Zarqawi to read in Iraq, the Egyptian physician paused to talk about the women in his life. His "favorite wife," he wrote, was crushed by the concrete of a collapsed ceiling in an American bombing. "She went on calling for aid to lift the stone block off her chest until she breathed her last, may God have mercy on her and accept her among the martyrs," Zawahiri wrote in the letter, which was intercepted and disseminated by American intelligence. "As for my young daughter, she was afflicted by a cerebral hemorrhage, and she continued for a whole day suffering in pain until she expired. And to this day I do not know the location of the graves of my wife, my son, my daughter."
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So what's the lure for Al Qaeda's women, 17(unhairy and unsmelly)studs in hell?
Yep and ditto.
:-)
"Women of al Qaeda" sounds like it is going to be a Playboy special. Can't wait.
I've often said, if you want to see the quality leadership of a country, look at the men. If you want to see the direction the country is heading, look at the women.
It's bad enough that the Islamic (especially Arabic) world is producing these knucklehead sons. It's especially scary, though, when the women are now imitating the men. That part of the world have truly reached the lowest level of decadence.
I think we have a winner for Miss al-Qaeda 2005.
As in, "Whoa, get a load of the burquas on that dhimmi..." /sarcasm
the male martyrs think they get 72 virgins ,
what do the females think they get?
So, do they have a Women of Al Qaeda calender? And do they take the pictures before or after? Hm.... will it be "Here's Miss March (blue burkah), here's Miss April (black burkah with saucy red trim." or will it be "Here's Miss September. And here. And here. And, oops, there's some over there..."
"Women of Al Qaeda "
Playboy would often do a piece on "women of the Big 10" or "women of the NYPD". Just a thought.
"the male martyrs think they get 72 virgins ,
what do the females think they get?"
Maybe not being one the lucky 72 ?
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"The clothes concealed the explosives strapped around her womb."
Am I the only one who finds the use of the word "womb" here strange? I mean why not "middle" or "belly" or something? Why "womb", home to fetuses?
Heh heh.
Somewhere I read an interview of a female suicide bomber who, when asked what's waiting in 'paradise' for her, she said she gets to be the head of the 72 virgins.
I was thinking the same thing. Satan has wanted to destroy humanity and our offspring since the beginning.
In fact, many Arab and Muslim men, not just jihadists, see foreign occupation as a form of emasculation. (Just weeks after Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003, Qasim Alsabti, the cosmopolitan owner of a Baghdad art gallery, told NEWSWEEK the U.S. occupation was "part of a plan to steal our souls—to castrate us.")
Well isn't that just so convenient?? If these "men" had taken responsibility for teaching their kids not to hate and kill western life and stood up instead for decency and civilization, the West wouldn't have had to come in and clean up their mess. But shifting responsibility is a common tactic of Muslims. And Democrats.
Suicide bombing is changing the rules of deference and subservience that have dominated the traditional society—a strange path to liberation for women hidden behind veils and burqas.
I understand what the authors are trying to point out, but they should add that blowing yourself to Kingdom Come still ultimately a form of subservience.
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