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	Female Suicide Bombers
		October 4, 2003 A suicide attack was perpetrated in Haifa by a 29-year-old female lawyer in Jenin.
		As noted in “Messengers of Death: female suicide bombers,” women have channeled the frustration stemming from their role in society into ruthless behavior.
		According to Israeli sources, female suicide bomber Jaradat was approached by the PIJ during the period of mourning for her brother and her cousin.
	www.ict.org.il /articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=508 (2744 words)

	Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East
		Indeed, the glorification of dead suicide bombers and their glorification as part of the martyrs' cult indicate the support that the phenomenon of suicide bombing has among the Palestinian people.
		Advertisements in newspapers that announce the death of a suicide bomber extend an invitation to the public for the funeral.
		For an army that is trained to occupy territory and defend it, the suicide bomber is a complex enemy to fight.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EJ18Ak03.html (1577 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Female suicide bomber kills six in Iraqi city declared free of terrorists
		Although female suicide bombers have been used by the Tamil Tigers, Palestinians and Chechens, they are rare in Iraq and none has struck since the start of the insurgency.
		The use of female bombers will make it more difficult for the police and soldiers manning checkpoints, particularly because there is a shortage of women officers to conduct body searches.
		Iraqi politicians and security analysts appeared less concerned with the gender of the bomber yesterday than with the fact that the blast occurred in a city that only two weeks ago was being declared "free of terrorists" after a large, joint US and Iraqi offensive.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1580485,00.html (775 words)

	Women & suicide bombing attacks - Terrorism Information
		An analysis of the female suicide terrorists' social background and motives reveals a common characteristic: prior to perpetrating the attacks, most of them were pushed to the fringes of society having violated the strict code of moral conduct obligatory for women in the conservative Palestinian Muslim society.
		Reem al-Riyashi is the seventh female suicide bomber to perpetrate a suicide bombing attack since the outbreak of hostilities in September 2000.
		February 27, 2002: Female suicide bomber Dareen Abu Aisheh, a resident of Beit Wazan in Northern West Bank, was dispatched by the Fatah's Tanzim organization to perpetrate a suicide bombing attack in the vicinity of the Maccabim roadblock (some 20 kilometers west of Jerusalem).
	www.intelligence.org.il /eng/sib/6_04/women.htm (1442 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- Woman suicide bomber marks possible new insurgent tactic in Iraq
		The move exploits a hole in security that is tough to fill, especially ahead of an upcoming referendum on the country's new constitution, in which men and women are expected to be lining up at the polls.
		In the attack at the Tal Afar army recruitment center, the female suicide bomber disguised herself in a traditional white "dishdasha" robe and a checkered kaffiya headscarf – both worn only by men – to stand in the line of Iraqi applicants, Maj. Jamil Mohammed Saleh said.
		Before the insurgency began, Saddam Hussein's regime is known to have used female suicide bombers at least once: Just before the April 2003 fall of Baghdad, two women detonated their car near the city of Haditha, killing three American soldiers.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20050928-1501-iraq.html (1018 words)

	Female suicide bomber kills two in Israel - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The bomber -- who Palestinian accounts identified as Zeinab Abu Salem of the Askar refugee camp near the West Bank town of Nablus -- highlighted the increasing role that female militants have been playing in the intifada.
		She became the eighth female suicide bomber since the intifada began in 2000, but the Israelis caught more than 40 other female would-be bombers, a security source said.
		Sunday's suicide bombing was the first since Aug. 31 when two Palestinians detonated their bombs in Beersheba busses killing 16 people and wounding 101.
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20040922-044122-2934r.htm (883 words)

	ABC News: Female Suicide Bomber Kills Six in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A car bomber penetrated the heavily fortified Green Zone Tuesday but was stopped by U.S. Marines before being able to detonate the vehicle, a military spokesman said.
		BAGHDAD, Iraq Sep 28, 2005 —; A woman suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army recruitment center Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 30 in a northern city where coalition forces had routed insurgents in a major offensive this month.
		The coalition called Abu Azzam the mastermind of an escalation in suicide bombings that have claimed nearly 700 lives in Baghdad since April, and said he was the financial controller for foreign fighters who entered Iraq to join the insurgency.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1165612 (487 words)

	Female suicide bomber murders 19 in Haifa : AZ IMC
		A female suicide bomber detonated herself Saturday afternoon in a packed beach-front Haifa restaurant that served as one of the city's beacons of Arab-Jewish coexistence, murdering 19 people, including four children.
		After the last spate of suicide bombings three weeks ago, the cabinet declared Arafat an "obstacle to peace" who should be "removed" and paved the way for his possible expulsion.
		Just after 2 p.m., as dozens of Arabs and Jews were dining at the popular Maxim restaurant, the suicide bomber, apprentice lawyer Hanadi Jaradat, 27, shouldered her way into the restaurant, detonating herself and spraying the diners with ball bearings and shrapnel.
	arizona.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=12590 (783 words)

	Navy Times - News - More News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The remains of the suicide bomber were identified as those of a woman, said Khalil and Dr. Bahaa al-din al-Bakri, who works at the local hospital that received the remains in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
		Male militants often have carried out numerous suicide car bomb attacks against Iraqi security forces, U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians, but the Mosul attack was the first one known to have been carried out by a woman driver since the insurgency began.
		The only other successful suicide attack by a woman in Iraq occurred on Sept. 28, when a female with explosives hidden beneath her traditional white robe set them off after she stood in line outside an Iraqi army recruitment center in the western city of Tal Afar, killing at least six people and wounding 30.
	navytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-1166905.php (311 words)

	Female suicide bomber kills 8 at center / 35 aid seekers, police recruits injured in explosion in Tal Afar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Baghdad -- A female suicide bomber disguised in traditional male robes killed eight people, including herself, and wounded at least 35 when she detonated explosives outside a police recruitment center in the troubled northwestern city of Tal Afar on Wednesday, according to Iraqi authorities.
		The bomber was believed to be the first woman to carry out a deadly suicide attack in Iraq since U.S.-led troops ousted Iraq President Saddam Hussein in April 2003.
		The female suicide bombing followed meetings Tuesday between Iraqi government envoys and local chieftains aimed at encouraging residents to sign up with the Iraqi police.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/29/MNG7DEVFI91.DTL&feed=rss.news (568 words)

	CNN.com - Female suicide bomber kills at least 4 Israelis - Jan. 14, 2004
		A female suicide bomber killed at least four Israelis Wednesday morning at the Erez border crossing separating Israel and northern Gaza, according to Israeli military sources.
		Three soldiers and one Israeli civilian were killed in the attack, as was the bomber, according to the sources.
		Gad Shamni, commander of the army's Gaza Division, as saying when the bomber reached the area where Palestinian workers are inspected prior to entry into Israel, she told security personnel that she had a metal plate in her leg, which could set off an alarm.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/01/14/israel.blast (452 words)

	Female suicide bomber kills five in Iraq - World - smh.com.au
		An Iraqi female suicide bomber blew herself up outside a US military office in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, killing herself and at least five others and wounding 53, police said.
		It marked the first time since an insurgency by Sunni Arabs began that a female suicide bomber had launched an attack in Iraq, in a new tactic common among Chechen suicide bombers operating in Russia but rare in the Middle East.
		Wednesday's attack mirrored a suicide bombing of a recruitment centre in Baquba, 65 kilometres north of Baghdad, on Tuesday.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/female-suicide-bomber-kills-five-in-iraq/2005/09/29/1127804574149.html (712 words)

	USATODAY.com - Female suicide bomber, 4 others die in Gaza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was believed to be the first time the Islamic militant group Hamas has sent a female suicide bomber, possibly signaling a change in tactics aimed at piercing Israeli security, which mainly focuses on male suspects.
		The bomber, identified as Gaza resident Reem Raiyshi, 22, told soldiers at the crossing point that she would set off a metal detector because she had an implant from surgery to repair a broken leg.
		The suicide bombing came on the heels of a West Bank ambush late Tuesday in which Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish settler in a car at the entrance to the Talmon settlement near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-01-14-gaza-bombing_x.htm (1088 words)

	SUICIDE BOMBER FIRST ISLAMIC JIHAD FEMALE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hiba Da’arma, from a northern Jordan Valley village, was the fifth female suicide bomber.
		The second female suicide bomber, Darin Abu Aisha, 22, was another divorcee, whose ex-husband and brother had both recently been killed by Israeli forces.
		The family of the fourth female bomber, Andalib Takatka, a 20-year-old single woman, was also upset and Hamas denounced Fatah for recruiting her.
	www.icej.org /cgi-local/view.cgi?type=headline&artid=2003/05/21/615894217 (328 words)

	Iraq's first female suicide bomber kills 6 - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		In the attack at the Tal Afar army recruitment center, the female suicide bomber was wearing a traditional white "dishdasha" robe and a checkered kaffiya headscarf -- both worn only by men -- to blend in with the line of Iraqi applicants, Maj. Jamil Mohammed Saleh said.
		It was the first known time that a woman has succeeded in carrying out a suicide bombing in Iraq since the insurgency began, though it was not the first attempt.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/09/28/suicide_bombing_attack_kills_six_in_iraq (1046 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- Female suicide bomber kills six at Iraqi army recruitment center
		The attack in Tal Afar, where U.S. and Iraqi forces routed militants in a major offensive two weeks ago, demonstrated the difficulty of maintaining security in the towns in the large northwestern region stretching to the Syrian border, where insurgents are most active.
		The woman, disguised as a man in traditional robes, was standing in line with applicants to join the Iraqi army at the first of three checkpoints outside the center when she detonated explosives hidden under her clothes and packed with metal balls, said Maj. Jamil Mohammed Sadr in Tal Afar.
		Saddam Hussein's regime used female bombers at least once during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, when two women blew up a car at a checkpoint near the city of Haditha, killing three American soldiers days before the April 2003 fall of Baghdad.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20050928-0603-iraq.html (787 words)

	U.S. Air Force AIM Points: Female suicide bomber attacks U.S. military post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The unidentified woman was the first known female suicide bomber in the insurgency that began after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
		The bomber "was denied entry" to a building, called a civil military operations center, that was used as a semipublic place for U.S. soldiers to interact with local people, said Maj. Gary Dangerfield, a spokesman for the Army's 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Tall Afar.
		Former president Saddam Hussein's security forces used female bombers at least once during the 2003 invasion, when two women blew up their car at a checkpoint near the northern city of Haditha, killing three American soldiers, the Associated Press reported.
	aimpoints.hq.af.mil /display.cfm?id=6866 (1051 words)

	Lady Killers - The rise of the female suicide bomber.
		A female suicide bomber blew herself up today, killing eight people and injuring at least 34 outside a Moscow subway station.
		Almost exactly a week earlier, two Russian planes crashed within moments of each other, in what authorities believe to have been suicide attacks by two female Chechen sympathizers.
		Female suicide bombers allegedly connected with Chechen rebels have been responsible for multiple attacks throughout Russia in recent years.
	www.slate.com /id/2105986 (182 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com Female suicide bomber tried to explode the hospital in Beslan
		First TV Channel reported that the female terrorist dressed as a nurse and tried to enter the hospital in Beslan to trigger an explosive device there.
		Eight female suicide bombers have been trained at the terrorist training camps abroad and are ready for acting in Russia.
		Suicide bombers blew up two Israeli buses in the southern city of Beersheba, killing themselves and leaving at least 12 people dead and 84 injured, Israel's rescue service said.
	newsfromrussia.com /accidents/2004/09/03/55843.html (1480 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Forced Female Suicide by Phyllis Chesler
		Certainly, some female Palestinian suicide bombers have "freely" chosen the murderous martyr's path: most likely, such women have had close male relatives who have died in the war that the Palestinians have declared against the Israelis.
		Whatever the tragic circumstances, it is important to understand that the coercion of women by men to become suicide bombers is not an aberration in the Middle East.
		Traditionally, gender apartheid under Islam includes female genital mutilation, compulsory veiling, arranged marriage, sequestration, polygamy, stonings for alleged adultery, approved wife-beating, and Arab honor killings in which raped girls and women are killed by their father or brother for the crime of "dishonor" they have brought upon their family.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11855 (875 words)

	Female suicide bomber kills four at Gaza checkpoint
		A female suicide bomber detonated an explosive-belt inside a security office at the Erez crossing through which 4,000 Palestinians cross daily to work in Israel.
		She was taken into a side room for inspection, so as not to offend her, accompanied by a female soldier, where she then detonated the bomb.
		The last terror attack in Israel took place on December 25 when a male Palestinian suicide bomber perpetrated an attack in Tel Aviv that killed four Israelis.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=976 (238 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| Woman suicide bomber strikes Iraq
		The bomber blew up a device hidden beneath her Islamic dress as she stood among job applicants, reports said.
		The last time women are known to have been used as suicide bombers in Iraq was during the war, in April 2003, when two women, one of them pregnant, blew up their car at a coalition checkpoint, killing three soldiers.
		On Sunday nine people were killed when a suicide bomber drove into a convoy of Iraqi special forces on patrol in the capital.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/4289168.stm (514 words)

	Terrorism Unveiled: Details About European Female Suicide Bomber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The magazine was named such for Khansaa, a female living in the time of the Prophet Muhammad, who was known for raising and preparing her four sons for martyrdom for the Islamic jihad raging at the time.
		She is a female Jihad warrior who wages Jihad by means of funding Jihad; she wages Jihad by means of waiting for her Jihad warrior husband, and when she educates her children to that which Allah loves.
		However, the newer wave of jihadist ideology, as espoused in Iraq and seemingly mainly from the Zarqawi group (due to his attempted use of Sajida ar-Rishawi as one of the recent suicide bombers in the attack on Amman hotels) has no explicit condemnation for the use of women.
	www.terrorismunveiled.com /athena/2005/12/details_about_e.html (1621 words)

	israelinsider: security: Female suicide bomber in Jerusalem kills elderly Israeli, injures 150
		A woman, reportedly a female student from Al-Najah University in the West Bank city of Nablus blew herself up in central Jerusalem, killing an 81 year old Israeli man and injuring scores.
		The Lebanon-based, Hizbullah-run television station Al-Manar identified the Tel Aviv bomber as Sapwat Ibrahim Khalil, 18, of Beit Wazan, west of Nablus.
		Shortly after Friday's suicide bombing, IAF F-16 jets bombed the abandoned Mukata police installation in Tulkarm for the second time in two weeks, saying that the suicide bomber had been sent from there.
	www.israelinsider.com /channels/security/articles/sec_0183.htm (1272 words)

	Female suicide bomber kills 6 at Iraqi army recruitment center - billingsgazette.com
		In October 2003, a female bomber was caught trying to enter a government building in Baghdad before she could detonate her explosives.
		The coalition called Abu Azzam the mastermind of an escalation in suicide bombings that have killed nearly 700 people in Baghdad since April and said he was the financial controller for foreign fighters who entered Iraq to join the insurgency.
		Al-Qaida in Iraq issued an Internet statement denying Abu Azzam was its deputy leader, calling him "one of al-Qaida's many soldiers" and "the leader of one its battalions operating in Baghdad." The statement confirmed the Baghdad raid but said it was not certain whether he was killed.
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?ts=1&display=rednews/2005/09/28/build/world/25-iraqbomber_v.inc (998 words)

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