What role do women play in Al Qaeda? A few are suicide bombers; others may encourage their men to become one.There is something haunting and deeply sinister about the interview that NEWSWEEK TÃœRKIYE's Adem Demir did with Defne Bayrak, the wife of the "CIA bomber," last week. But she seems to have quit talking since she was picked up by the cops in Istanbul, questioned, and released--and that's really too bad, because there are a whole lot of questions I'd still like to ask her.
For starters, did she put him up to the bombing? Did she, perhaps, want to be the bride of a martyr? Is this a "divorce, jihadi style"? Read what she's said so far, and you're left wondering.
| It would certainly avoid the lingering pain and bitterness of an American-style divorce... |