Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Sinking to new lows: Islamists employ rapists


Iraqi woman had 80 women raped to recruit as suicide bombers

Samira Ahmed Jassim [pictured above], suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.
[Agence France-Presse]


'Mother' of Iraqi women bomber network arrested
-Qassim Abdul-Zahra & Brian Murphy

Samira Ahmed Jassim, accused of helping recruit dozens of female suicide bombers, looked into the camera and described the process: trolling society for likely candidates and then patiently converting the women from troubled souls into deadly attackers.

The accounts, in a video released by Iraq police, offer a rare glimpse into the networks used to find and train the women bombers who have become one of the insurgents’ most effective weapons.

[T]he woman said she was part of a plot in which young women were raped and then sent to her for matronly advice. She said she would try to persuade the victims to become suicide bombers as their only escape from the shame and to reclaim their honor.
(AP)
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