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September 28, 2005

Iraq's First Female Suicide Bomber Kills 6

Topics: Iraq

In what al-Qaida calls a suicide bombing "carried out by a 'blessed sister'," Iraq's first known woman suicide bomber blew herself up in what resulted in the killing of six police recruits and wounding 35 others.

A woman disguised in a man's robes and headdress slipped into a line of army recruits Wednesday and detonated explosives strapped to her body, killing at least six recruits and wounding 35 - the first known suicide attack by a woman in Iraq's insurgency.

The attack in Tal Afar near the Syrian border appeared aimed at showing that militants could still strike in a town where U.S. and Iraqi offensives drove out insurgents only two weeks ago. A female suicide bomber may have been chosen because she could get through checkpoints - at which women are rarely searched - then don her disguise to join the line of men, Iraqi officials said.

From the Washington Times article we learn that in a photo of the woman's head shown to AP, the femaile homicide bomber, appeared to be in her early 20s with dark eyes, light skin and brownish hair. It wasn't determined whether or not she was an Iraqi.

Posted by Richard at September 28, 2005 11:28 PM

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