We've just turned another corner in Iraq

[CatWoman]

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More Women Join Ranks of Suicide Bombers in Iraq

American and Iraqi government forces are facing a growing new threat: female suicide bombers.

Since Jan. 1, the U.S. military reports 14 female suicide bomb attacks in Iraq, up from eight in 2007. Preventing such attacks — which Iraqi government officials say have caused some of the highest numbers of casualties in Iraq in recent months — is a challenge.

"It's a new trend," said Farhana Ali, an international analyst with the Rand Corp. who has studied female participation in guerrilla movements from Latin America to Southeast Asia. "Never before in the history of Iraq have you seen women take on such a tactic as suicide terrorism."

Studying Would-Be Bombers

The U.S.-backed Iraqi government is conducting studies, trying to determine why women are choosing to commit suicide attacks.

In a videotaped interview, filmed by an Iraqi journalist working for NPR, an Iraqi woman named Um al Harith explained why she tried to become a suicide bomber. The 28-year-old wore a black veil during the interview to protect her identity, although she doesn't normally wear one in public.

It started, she said, when her beloved older brother Mohammed died fighting against U.S. troops in Diyala province, north of Baghdad.

"I collapsed. My life was destroyed," Harith said, her voice cracking.

"When I saw Americans in the street, or guards, or anyone who cooperated with them, I felt something inside me, like I wanted to tear them to pieces. Tear them to pieces. Cut them to pieces!" she repeated, shaking her head as she spoke. "Then one day my husband told me we were going to carry out an operation."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90367974

[MichiganVote]

1. Oh good. Would this be the spend more of our taxes to pay off terrorists to blow up

the administration in Iraq or blow up the terrorists and pay the gut sucking administration?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Suicide bombers are less sexist than Democratic voters?

???

[Brigid]

3. Turning corners. . .

If you do that as much as we have done in Iraq, doesn't that mean you're just going in circles? Just sayin'. :eyes:

[liberal N proud]

4. Around and around we go

Where we will get out no one knows

[lurky]

5. Another corner?

That's a lot of corners. I guess Iraq is like an octagon or something...

[Berry Cool]

7. More like a dodecahedron. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Are these the first of the last, last throes? Or the last of the last of the first throes?

Maybe Big Dick can fill us in.

[jimshoes]

8. Now this is not the end.

It is not even the beginning of the end. This is not even the end of the beginning. I think we're on some kind of time loop.:silly:

[Hekate]

10. It's more like throe-ing up at this point. nt

[Hekate]

9. We're officially going in circles? or is it spiraling out of control? Turning all those corners, yea

:hurts:

[hvn_nbr_2]

11. After turning so many corners....

you eventually walk into a real-life Escher drawing.