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| Al Qaida announces women’s suicide division | |
| 2003-03-18 | |
| Al Qaida has reported the establishment of a women's suicide division which is being led by a women named Umm Osama, a nomme de guerre that means the mother of Osama, a reference to Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden. Mother Of All Bombers? Sorry, that name's taken. The unit trains women in suicide attacks and is meant to compensate for a shortage of male volunteers. But, I thought that muslims were flocking by the thousands to be martyr's for Islam? "The idea gathered interest after female suicide missions in Palestine and Chechnya," Umm Osama said in an interview to the London-based Al-Sharq Al Awsat daily on March 12. "We are willing to take any Muslim woman, and we have Chechens, Afghans, Arabs from all countries. We are preparing to carry out operations as our predecessors did in Palestine and Chechnya." The Saudi-owned newspaper, which has maintained contact with Al Qaida, said it conducted the interview via the Internet. Umm Osama said the women are instructed in firing the U.S. M-16, the Russian AK-47 and various pistols. She said the instruction is conducted in several languages. "As a network and oganization, we rely on the Internet for widest distribution," Umm Osama said. "Every person trains in her locality because we can't bring everybody to one location." Teaching marksmanship via the internet, that explains a lot. Umm Osama said her unit receives instructions from the Al Qaida leadership. She said an Al Qaida figure, Mullah Seif Eddin serves as liasion with the leadership of Al Qaida and Taliban. The women's unit plans to eventually establish a training camp in an unspecified location, Umm Osama said. She said the development of the unit has taken time and overcame Muslim resistance to women fighters. "We have women fighters on Afghan territory who are battling the crusader forces [the United States and allies] and have blown themselves up," Umm Osama said.
The NOW gang will be so proud. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #4 Joke from Kuwait: after the first gulf war, journalists noted that while before the conflict women would walk 10 paces behind the men, they were now walking 10 paces ahead of the men. When one of the journalists mentioned how much progress the country had made for women's rights sice the conflict, he was told, "no, it doesn't mean they are equal, it just means the land mines haven't all been cleared out yet." |
| Posted by: anon 2003-03-18 23:40:57 |
| #3 Well, look at the silver lining. Gender equality can happen in the Muslim world! Well, a particularly weird kind, but still. |
| Posted by: Crescend 2003-03-18 15:17:57 |
| #2 Considering the hell they go through from their own men, they've probably decided blowing themselves up was an attractive alternative... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-03-18 14:08:14 |
| #1 Wow--those fundamentalist Islams are smart! Get the women to kill themselves so the men don't have to go to the trouble of beheading them on some trumped up charge. Saves time and effort! |
| Posted by: Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-18 13:09:47 |