Female Suicide Bomber Kills 9 In Iraq - With Video
BAGHDAD - A woman wearing a vest lined with explosives blew herself up near Shiite worshippers in turbulent Diyala province north of the capital Wednesday, killing nine of them—the latest in a growing number of female suicide attacks.
Six people were wounded in the bombing in Khan Bani Saad, a town nine miles south of Baqouba, Diyala’s provincial capital, police said.
Although female suicide bombings have been fairly rare in Iraq, extremists have been using women more frequently in recent months. U.S. officials say this indicates the militants are running short of male volunteers. However, it also could be that al-Qaida in Iraq believes women are less likely than men to be searched and that explosives are easier to conceal under women’s clothing.
Wednesday’s bombing was the fourth female suicide attack in Iraq since November. All have taken place in Diyala, which has been a major focus of a nationwide campaign the U.S. military launched last week against al-Qaida in Iraq and other Sunni extremists.
According to residents and police, the woman detonated her explosives when she saw Shiite men in black about 50 yards from a mosque making preparations for a ceremony marking Ashoura, the holiest day in the Shiite calendar.
(AP)
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They must be running out of virgins; being a female she probably not entitled to anything more than a well-hung donkey.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:02 amAccording to the Mein Kaumpfs of Islam the jihad of women is the haj. Dumb bitch doesn’t even know her own (and I use this term reservedly)…religion (cough)….
What’s she expecting in the afterlife? 72 virgins? Ha…Muhammed fooled you bitch…enjoy the agony that is hades…You deserved it.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:15 am“They must be running out of virgins; being a female she probably not entitled to anything more than a well-hung donkey.”
LOL!
that was great…
January 16th, 2008 at 11:51 amOk maybe it’s just me but that looks like a guy in a burka. Women are “not seen” there so a man dressed as a woman would go about with less attention. Or it could be one UGLY woman.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:28 pm