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Al Qaida announces women’s suicide division
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.
"You just never hear about them..."
"We also have women in Afghanistan who carry messages from the leadership." "We are preparing for the new strike announced by our leaders and I declare that it will make America forget the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001," she said. "Our organization is open to all Muslim women wanting to serve the [Islamic] nation, particularly in this very critical phase."
The NOW gang will be so proud.
Posted by: Steve 2003-03-18
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=11448