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Politics : Attack Iraq?

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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (1662)9/26/2002 12:39:12 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER  Read Replies (5) of 8683
 
Never mind that ignoramus Craepstein... Islam's got nothing to do with Palestinian suicide bombers. It's not a religious thing. After all, even female suicide bombers have popped up recently. Does the Quran tell anything about 72 virgin ephebes for martyr women???

See, that's the problem with Judeofascists like Craepstein --they just don't take the trouble to learn anything about other cultures/religions... They only read and watch what their fellow crapmongers make up.

From an angel of mercy to angel of death

Her family recall a lively tomboy. But, drawn to martyrdom, she became the first female suicide bomber to strike Israel

Peter Beaumont in Ramallah
Thursday January 31, 2002
The Guardian


Wafa Idrees was a model young woman, according to her relatives and friends. She was a good friend, a loving daughter and a social activist who always helped her neighbours in times of trouble.

She was a volunteer first aider with the Palestinian Red Crescent in Ramallah, a stretcher-bearer who went into the thick of the fighting every Friday to recover Palestinian youths injured - and sometimes killed - in the fighting around the city's main "clash points". Twice in the past year, the Red Crescent said yesterday, she had been hit by plastic-coated bullets fired by Israeli soldiers.

But on Sunday, Wafa Idrees decided on a different, very lethal kind of activism. She rushed from her home that morning, telling her family she was late for work but would see them when she returned.

Instead, she picked up a 10kg bomb packed into a rucksack, strapped it to her back and went to Jerusalem. There, just before lunch, she ran out from an alley and detonated the explosives in Jaffa Street, a Jewish neighbourhood of west Jerusalem full of shops and restaurants. She blew herself to pieces, killed an elderly bystander and injured 100 others.
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guardian.co.uk
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