Iraq has had four attacks since November by female suicide bombers. Wednesday’s bombing, near a market and mosque in Diyala province, killed eight civilians. Maybe, as U.S. military officers say, al-Qaida is turning to women because it’s running out of male volunteers. Maybe it’s because females are less likely to arouse suspicion. In any case, when first lady Laura Bush and others call for expanded rights and opportunities for women in Iraq, this isn’t what they have in mind.
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Burkha’s would make it easy to hide a bomb. But I have to throw out the possibility that it could be a cross dresser so as to not arouse suspicion.
And the mission continues to be not accomplished.
I wonder how many of them are people whose family members have been killed by US bombs?
Would kinda make a mommy mad, to hold half of her baby and all.
Could be the Islamic version of Women’s Lib.! (Do they get 70 virgin males?)
Libs
I do not notice a large number of Vietnamese or Koreans or Germans or Japanese or Italians or any other country we have bombed, ever strapping bombs on their women and children and blowing up innoncent people.
Terrorism is caused by a radical ideology.
Terrorism is NOT caused by anything the United States Does.
My dad came back from Viet Nam telling stories of having kids running up to Americans trying to sell lighters, toys and what-not. They went boom too. Japan liked Kamikaze’s, Germany was rich enough to have something to fight with, not just parts of unexploded bombs to work with. I can’t even try and figure out North Korea. Just guesses here.
If the House would have Impeached Governor Sebelius or at least upheld my Constitutional Rights for the review, we would have a vote for “OUR” AG. Know we have a Dictator Governor getting her choice. Remember this when we have the chance to remove the entire House this election. Remove them all and show them that a Terroristic/Dictator/Governor should have been Impeached!!!!!!!!!!! Herbert West III, west.herb@yahoo.com
“….to Americans trying to sell lighters, toys and what-not. They went boom too.”
Happened at Nha Trang at least twice in my 19 months there —- if I remember one was a satchel charge thrown under an AF bus driving NCO’s to their in town villas, lots of bikes mopeds easy to slip something under vehicle ..
the only suicides I remember where the Buddhist monks that set themselves on fire …
Thanks Ken for your service.
Poor folks do some devious crap when helpless and hopeless I guess.
Problem with these “police actions” (I dunno why they always add the qualifier “War” to these things. We haven’t declared war since WWII. They tie our warriors hands and give them two inches of rope. Why can’t we just declare war, blow stuff up, break things and win? We wouldn’t be lingering around, throwing declarations of “Mission Accomplished!” around making the blind feel good and the idiots in power couldn’t lie to the people and kill our soldiers like cattle.
There were suicide attacks by both genders during the Uprising in Warsaw against the Nazis. Like Pleefer said ” folks do some devious crap when helpless and hopeless”
I know that it suicide attacks happened, in Vietnam, but they were relatively rare.
Islamic terrorism has practiced suicide bombing in a way that no other country or culture or movement has ever matched.
Also,
I dont recall any Vietnamese suicide attack on any American after we left.
Of course, many of the boat people died at sea, trying to escape the Communists, but they weren’t trying to kill anyone.
My point, again, is that Islamic Terrorists will try to attack us no matter what we do.
There can be no peace with them.
I don’t know Paul – were there Iraqi suicide attacks against us before the invasion? Or are you confusing Iraq with its enemies again?
Palestinians made a name for themselves as the “originators” of suicide bombing. But when you have to mount attacks against tanks with rocks and hacksaws, I’m sure you have to get creative. Religion is poison to be sure though.
Palestinians did not invent suicide bombing. It goes way back and almost always is marked by the ‘rocks vs tanks’ situation.
“I dont recall any Vietnamese suicide attack on any American after we left.”
Ah, Paul, there were no suicide attacks on Americans after we left because…………….. the Americans left. The Vietnamese had take control of the country and there was no reason to continue fighting.
Samson (the strong man in the Bible) may be the first suicide attacker (brought down the temple.)
People willing to die for their cause is NOT new.
The Japanese kamikazis were pointed out. Though it is not widely known, Germany too had suicide planes and rockets. They had other planes and boats that were virtual suicide weapons. Later in the war, ramming planes in to allied planes was practiced.
People who are willing to die usually have a reason you are not gonna be able to talk them out of without SOME compromise.
If we get out of the mideast it will not stop but it will be curtailed.
You can’t stop people so motivated. But you can take away the reason.
“There can be no peace with them.
That is simplistic, jingoistic, and frankly stupid.
You forgot the follow on line for such rhetoric. That being:
“We have to exterminate them.”
But the problem with THAT outside of it being LOUSY for our image in the world among other things is? You CAN’T.
Stomping on them only recruits more.
My son is reaching the age when such mentality has sent MILLIONS to death in war. I hope to hell we get someone who understands diplomacy in charge instead of reactionary idiots. My family has no stake in the middle east.
Ken, I was stationed at Nha Trang too. Lovely place isn’t it?
It’s ironic how Liberals turn an Obviously feminist cause (The exploitation of women by suicide bomb) into an Bush problem. This is just the sort of hyperbole that Female Muslim Writers have railed against.
Wha???
Bombing for some sort of ERA thing? Umm? Uh?
Really?
You did say it was an “obvious” feminist cause.
No way,… you’re just being funny…you did almost have me though. good one.
“The Vietnamese had take control of the country and there was no reason to continue fighting.”
How quickly you forget they murdered around a million Cambodians after we left.