Posted on 04/04/2003 11:43:18 AM PST by Smogger
Iraq's state news agency has claimed two Iraqi women carried out a suicide attack on US forces north-west of Baghdad.
The claim appeared to refer to a blast hours earlier at a checkpoint that killed three coalition soldiers, a pregnant woman and the car's driver.
Arabic satellite station Al-Jazeera later carried videos of two women vowing to commit suicide attacks.
It did not specify if the two were involved in the explosion earlier in the day, but it broadcast their statements immediately after mentioning the Iraqi news agency report.
US Central Command said the car exploded at a US special operations checkpoint in western Iraq. Brigadier General Vincent Brooks said it wasn't clear if the pregnant woman voluntarily took part in the attack.
The apparent suicide attack was about 11 miles south-west of the Haditha Dam. The site is north-west of Baghdad and about 80 miles east of the Syrian border.
Al-Jazeera broadcast separate tapes of two Iraqi women, each of whom stood in front of the Iraqi flag, brandishing an automatic rifle. The videotapes were similar to those of Palestinian suicide bombers distributed after attacks against Israelis.
A woman who identified herself as "martyrdom-seeker Nour Qaddour al-Shanbari" said: "We say to our leader and holy war comrade, the hero commander Saddam Hussein, that you have sisters that you and history will boast about."
In a separate video, another woman, who identified herself as Wadad Jamil Jassem, said: "I have devoted myself to jihad for the sake of God and against the American, British and Israeli infidels and to defend the soil of our precious and dear country."
© Associated Press
Women should not be in combat.
Active collaborators for Iraq. Plus stories and pictures about dead Americans to them seem to be the equivalent of our TV showing women in Jacuzzis. Titilation.
It sounds like the Fedayeen thugs forced an unwilling pregnant woman into the car and let her scream in fear before detonating the vehicle.
These Baathist thugs are the moral equivalent of the Nazi SS who ran the extermination camps in World War II.
The fortunate aspect of all this is that, once a town is secured, the Iraqi locals have been more than willing to point out who the Baathist thugs are to the Allied troops.
Whether shot in battle or hung after the war for war crimes, these Baathists thugs have to die. Every single last one of them. The war will not be won until that happens.
At least we know their eyes were blew.
I'd better stop before I tick someone off....
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.