So Does She Get 72 Virgins, Too?

[JayB]

Western white woman a suicide bomber

By Anthony Browne, Brussels Correspondent

 

 

 

MIREILLE, who was born in Belgium to a white, middle-class Christian family, blew herself to pieces last month in a suicide attack against American troops near Baghdad.

In one of the most extraordinary tales of Islamic radicalisation, she is thought to be the first white Western woman to carry out a suicide bombing.

 

 

 

Belgian investigators, who arrested 14 people associated with her, are keeping the 38-year-old woman’s true identity secret, but details have started to emerge. She was from the southern Belgian town of Charleroi, married to a Moroccan and converted to an extreme form of Islam.

 

“This is how she came into contact with the organisation which allowed her to become a fighter for jihad,” said Glenn Audenaert, the federal police director. Her Belgian documents show that she travelled with her husband to Iraq. On November 9 she blew herself up in a car bomb attack on a US military convoy, killing — according to conflicting reports — either only herself, or six people. Her Belgian passport was near by. Her husband was killed by American troops in a separate incident.

 

Security sources said that they knew of no other western European women suicide bombers. Al-Qaeda recently appealed for white converts to become suicide bombers, because it was easier for them to travel and evade detection before carrying out their attacks.

 

Mireille’s story leaked out yesterday in the French media, prompting the series of raids across four Belgian cities, including Brussels, and separate raids in Paris. M Audernaert said that the authorities wanted “to dismantle this network, which we knew was on our territory and which aimed to send volunteers for the jihad to the battlefield”.

 

The backgrounds of those arrested show that the problem of Islamic terrorism is no longer confined to immigrant communities — seven of those arrested were Muslim converts of native Belgian origin, two were Belgians of north African origin, two were Tunisians and three were Moroccans. One of the chief suspects held yesterday was a male Belgian convert to Islam, police said. “We know these groups are always planning attacks. All we can say is there were no attacks planned in Europe.”

 

The group had been under surveillance for four months, but Mireille slipped out of the country. “It was through this organisation that the lady went to Iraq with her husband, but we only knew about her once she was already there,” said M Audernaert. Belgium, with its big Muslim community, has become notorious as an operational base for Islamic terrorists."

[chucK]

Oh my god! A terrorists from Belgium. Looks like we'd better invade Venezuela before it's too late!

[cj001f]

Oh my god! A terrorists from Belgium. Looks like we'd better invade Venezuela before it's too late!

Invade Belgium? Maybe Bush really is taking lessons from Hitler!

[JayB]

Any explanation of this phenomenon that does not attribute it to rising Muslim anger over our continued occupation of Belgium is simply not credible.

 

The fact of the matter is that Islamists clearly do not have, nor have they ever had, an active agenda of their own that they are trying to further that exists outside of a reaction to American foreign policy.

[Cobra_Commander]

I wonder if this will raise prices on belgian waffles. Disasterous.

[Squid]

Boycott Brussel Sprouts!

[Cobra_Commander]

I already do!

[DirtyHarry]

That's Freedom Sprouts, you recreant.

[Squid]

 

The new face of TERROR!

[tivoli_mike]

smurfs are belgian too...

[Cobra_Commander]

smurfs are too busy trippin to bother with terror.

[olyclimber]

[olyclimber]

FYI, there is a plethora of Smurf humor out there...unfortunately alot of it is not "work safe".

[Squid]

Of course it's not safe! We're talking about terror here, and that starts with 't' and so does trouble! Do you run from trouble just because "it's not work safe?"

 

sheeesh. Elitist liberal.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Of course it's not safe! We're talking about terror here, and that starts with 't' and so does trouble! Do you run from trouble just because "it's not work safe?"

 

sheeesh. Elitist liberal.

 

Raise the alert level from "Elevated" to "High"

[tomtom]

The danger is Considerable!

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

Raise the alert level from "Elevated" to "High"

 

Mauve alert! Scramble the fighters, and a dozen eggs!

 

WOOP! WOOP! WOOP! WOOP!

[chucK]

Hey Jay,

Didn't you listen to GW yesterday or read about it or anything? He clearly said that the insurgency in Iraq is made up of "rejectionists, Saddamists and terrorists". I think you can pretty much attribute the motivations of the first two to be a reaction to American foreign policy (one in particular). El Prezidente also specifically mentioned that the third group (the only one in which your comment has some relevancy) is relatively a very small one.

[minx]

i'm still stuck on why she'd want 72 virgins

[cj001f]

i'm still stuck on why she'd want 72 virgins

5 cycles a year with major holidays

[Squid]

12*72 = 864 cycles a year with major headaches.

[cj001f]

with major headaches.

With 72 you better be able to find one without a "headache" unless you are horrible in bed

[ivan]

i'm still stuck on why she'd want 72 virgins

bill maher has also pointed out the silly nature of this desire when taken from the male point of view - "talk about frustrating...you know, after a couple 3 or 4 virgins in a row, aren't you gonna want a girl who KNOWS what she's doing?"

[Squid]

A girl who know's what she's doing will know you haven't a clue what you're doing.

[minx]

A girl who know's what she's doing will know you haven't a clue what you're doing.

 

speaking from experience eh?

 

it really wasn't nice of her to point and laugh but at least you learned something