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| Al Qaeda appeals to women to fight in Yemen | |
| 2010-05-21 | |
| Al Qaeda has appealed to Muslim women, particularly those in Saudi Arabia, to travel to Yemen and wage jihad. The appeal was made by Wafa al-Shahri, wife of Al Qaeda's second in command in Yemen, Said al-Shahri. Wafa al-Shahri was directing her message in particular to Al Qaeda colleagues in Saudi Arabia. Her appeal was published in the latest issue of the online magazine "Sada al-Malahim", the AKI news agency reported Thursday. "Those of you who are religious should immediately come to Yemen," she wrote. "If your men folk are not able to defend you, come here where you will be protected. In Yemen we have found men, among Al Qaeda militants and members of local tribes, who have helped us." The young woman admitted to having led a terror cell, uncovered by Saudi security services March 24 in al-Bureida. At least 113 people were arrested. Wafa al-Shahri, whose battle name is Umm Hajir al-Azdi, is wanted by Saudi authorities. Before her marriage to the deputy leader of the group, she had been married to two other Al Qaeda militants. The first husband was Saudi Al Shaia al-Qahtani, whom she divorced,
Wafa married Said al-Shahri two years ago, soon after he had been released from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. | |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #5 do they get 72 male virgins when they are killed? I believe they get to be the most beautiful of their husband's virgins, chris. And possibly they get to bring up a few family members to paradise as well, who otherwise wouldn't have earnt the privilege. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-05-21 17:14 |
| #4 I thought they were all on Little Green Footballs.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-05-21 16:01 |
| #3 ...well, they're either playing D&D or Warhammer at the local game store or still hermetically attached to their computer mouse playing WoW right now. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-05-21 15:54 |
| #2 GFL on that one, chris. Are there 72 male virgins in the entire world (let alone the afterlife)? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-05-21 14:19 |
| #1 do they get 72 male virgins when they are killed? |
| Posted by: chris 2010-05-21 13:23 |