Iraq's 'female bomber recruiter'

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Iraq's 'female bomber recruiter'

Samira Jassim is accused of recruiting dozens of female attackers

Suspected militant recruiter Samira Jassim reportedly calls herself "the Mother of Believers".

 

Detained in January by Iraqi security forces, the mother of six is accused of converting dozens of vulnerable women into suicide attackers.

 

In an apparent video confession, the middle-aged woman described how she identified potential bombers, helped supply them with explosives and led them to their targets.

 

She also explained, in a separate interview with the Associated Press, how insurgents used rape as a tool, with the "shamed" women persuaded to redeem themselves through suicide attacks.

 

Her apparent confession could help throw light on the recent increase in attacks in Iraq involving female bombers.

 

In 2007 there were eight suicide attacks by women; in 2008 there were 32, the US military says. In early January, a female bomber killed at least 35 Shia pilgrims in a blast near a Baghdad shrine.

 

Insurgents use female bombers because they can hide explosives under their robes and are less likely to be searched by male guards at security checkpoints.

 

'Bring her to us'

 

Samira Jassim worked with Sunni militants from the Ansar al-Sunnah group in Diyala province, one of the last remaining centres of Sunni insurgency, Iraqi security officials said.

Women can sometimes bypass the security checks in Iraqi cities

 

She had recruited 80 women to act as bombers, 28 of whom had gone on to launch attacks, a military spokesman told journalists at a news conference in Baghdad.

 

In a filmed confession, the black-robed Jassim described how she recruited one woman for an attack in the city of Mukdadiyah, 100 km (62 miles) northeast of Baghdad.

 

"I talked to her a number of times," she said. "I went back to them (the militants) and gave them the details on her. And they told me, bring her to us... And I took her to the police station and that's where she blew herself up."

 

She also described the long process of persuading a woman named Amal, who had family problems, to launch an attack.

 

"I talked to her many times, sat with her and she was very depressed," she said.

 

In a separate interview with AP a week after her 21 January arrest, Jassim also described how insurgents used organised rape as a way of generating more bombers.

 

Her role was to persuade the traumatised victims that carrying out a suicide attack was their only way out.

That claim was impossible to verify, AP said, and during their interview with her police interrogators sat in an adjoining room.

 

But in a culture where rape is considered very shameful for the victim, it is not implausible, correspondents say.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7869570.stm

 

Lovely.

[2bias 3]

Nothing new. They have been using women and children for suicide bombings for awhile.

[Guest Stevie]

Wouln't piss on them if they were on fire. They have a deep rooted evil in them, same as the Japs.

[Guest alex]

Apparently she was turned down for the suicide bomber gig as even the insurgents wouldn't rape her.

[Fop 1]

Nothing new. They have been using women and children for suicide bombings for awhile.

 

Aye, the methods of recruiting them are interesting though.

 

 

I've heard about them targeting depressed people or people in debt (and promising to pay off their debt - they rarely if ever do though) and such before.

 

 

But the (them) actively raping a person and then saying their only way out is to become a suicide bomber is a new one.

[tinofbeans 86]

seems a bit odd. but then again i'm not a religeous nutter.

[manc-mag 1]

 

That's a fucking massive keyhole like.

[Jusoda Kid 1]

 

That's a fucking massive keyhole like.

 

 

 

Was walking to work yesterday morning and one of these fuckwits dared to cross my path. I was walking behind her and because she was wearing the postbox carry on she was crossing side to side on the path, I waited until she went to one side and took my chance to overtake, but she swiftly crossed back over, in the process bumping into me. I told her in no uncertain terms what I thought of this, I felt like punching her through the slot in her head wear.

[tooner 243]

Wouln't piss on them if they were on fire. They have a deep rooted evil in them, same as the Japs.

 

 

dude!?! really, did you really just say that? to say inequivocally that an entire country of people are "evil" is the kind of gross oversimplification that allows radical imams and people like the woman in the article to coerce young impressionable iraqiis to blow themselves up.

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Wouln't piss on them if they were on fire. They have a deep rooted evil in them, same as the Japs.

 

 

dude!?! really, did you really just say that? to say inequivocally that an entire country of people are "evil" is the kind of gross oversimplification that allows radical imams and people like the woman in the article to coerce young impressionable iraqiis to blow themselves up.

 

 

The USA finally got to grips with the problem when they realised bribery was the way forward.

[paddy 9]

Nothing new. They have been using women and children for suicide bombings for awhile.

 

Aye, the methods of recruiting them are interesting though.

 

 

I've heard about them targeting depressed people or people in debt (and promising to pay off their debt - they rarely if ever do though) and such before.

 

 

But the (them) actively raping a person and then saying their only way out is to become interim manager is a new one.

FYP

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Nothing new. They have been using women and children for suicide bombings for awhile.

 

Aye, the methods of recruiting them are interesting though.

 

 

I've heard about them targeting depressed people or people in debt (and promising to pay off their debt - they rarely if ever do though) and such before.

 

 

But the (them) actively raping a person and then saying their only way out is to become interim manager is a new one.

FYP

 

Don't give them ideas.