Love, Blackmail and Rape – How al-Qaeda Grooms Women As ‘Perfect Weapons’

The scene of a suicide bombing at a courthouse and government outpost in central Baquba.

From Times Online:

A woman pretending to be pregnant walks up to a hospital in one of Iraq’s most dangerous regions and blows herself up.

Minutes later a man, also laden with explosives, attacks the rescue workers who rushed to the scene in Diyala province, north of Baghdad. Thirty-two people are killed and 52 wounded.

The co-ordinated bombings that ripped through the town of Baladruz in May are one of twelve attacks involving thirteen women suicide bombers to strike Diyala so far this year – a huge jump, signalling a new tactic by insurgents. US officials suspect that al-Qaeda has built a network of cells that recruit women and turn them into killers.

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My Comment: A number of years ago I asked my father on "why did he decide to fight for the Soviet Army in the Second World War". He mentioned that on the day that the war started, he was outside of Kiev and was able to see the German bombing raid hitting the center of the city. He rushed into the center, and was witnessed to the burnt and broken bodies in the street. He joined/was conscripted a week later. But he told me that his "enthusiasm" for the fight was not there .... he just wanted to make sure that he would survive the war with all of his limbs intact.

But what changed .... what made him firmly committed to the fight was what he witnessed in the regions that were formerly occupied by the Nazis. The mass graves, survivor stories, and the complete destruction of cities .... this helped him to realize that he was fighting evil .... and this evil had to be destroyed at all costs. This determination was what changed him and millions of his comrades in the Soviet Army in 1943 .... giving them the drive to begin the battle and slow march to Berlin.

When I hear stories of how Al Qaeda and their sympathizers are now using young women to be rigged as suicide bombers whose goal is to destroy and main innocent families, I remembered what my father told me. Evil comes in many forms .... but when you see it you know what it is ..... and that is why you must fight and win.

American and Iraqi forces are fighting against Al Qaeda members and sympathizers in the Iraqi Province of Diyala tonight. They know the evil that they are fighting .... and they know that they must also win.