Female Suicide Bombers Hit Iraq, Sri Lanka
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James Joyner | Wednesday, November 28, 2007 |
An exceedingly rare occurrence, a suicide bombing carried out by a female terrorist, has happened twice today, presumably independently, hitting the capitals of Iraq and Sri Lanka.
A woman wearing an explosives belt blew herself up near an American patrol northeast of Baghdad — a rare female suicide bombing that wounded seven U.S. troops and five Iraqis, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
CSM:
A female suicide bomber struck Wednesday in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, killing herself and one other person, but not the government minister who was the intended target. Authorities blamed the attack on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or Tamil Tigers, whose long-running separatist war flared up last year after the collapse of a Norwegian-brokered 2002 cease-fire.
See my January 2006 piece for TCS Daily, “Suicide Girls,” for background on the phenomenon.
Both via OTB News [Iraq, Sri Lanka]. Image TCS Daily.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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Is this a sign that the Islamofascists are starting to crack under pressure from western feminism?[lol]
The report implies a competence level on par with Squeaky Fromme & Sara Jane Moore![grinz]
