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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?
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To: Scoobah who wrote (10535)11/29/2005 2:58:07 PM
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Female Belgian suicide bomber hit Baghdad
UPI ^ | 11/29/05 | UPI

Female Belgian suicide bomber hit Baghdad BRUSSELS, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A woman who carried out a suicide attack in Iraq two weeks ago was identified Tuesday as the first European female suicide bomber.

The Belgian anti-terrorism unit has confirmed that the woman was a Belgian citizen who converted to Islam after her marriage to a Muslim fundamentalist, news service RTL reported Tuesday.

American military forces identified the woman at a combat scene in Baghdad. She was carrying recently issued Belgian identity papers which revealed she had traveled via Turkey. There are no traces of her radical husband who is believed to have organized her trip.

Around 10 percent of all suicide bombings the last 25 years have been carried out by women from the Middle East or Asia. It is, however, a first for a Western woman who has converted to Islam.
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