Women joining ranks of suicide bombers

[GabysPoppy]

JENIN, West Bank -- Because she was a woman, Hanadi Jaradat had a relatively easy time slipping through the tight security net that the Israeli army drapes over the northern West Bank to prevent suicide bombers from reaching Israel

The 27-year-old apprentice real estate lawyer got through the first army checkpoint, which divides the largely Palestinian West Bank from Israel, by waving her Jordanian passport. The female soldier assigned to the second blockade wasn't at her post, and because male soldiers are prohibited from searching women, they simply let Jaradat pass on that fateful day last fall.

Safely inside Israel and wearing a belt packed with explosives, Jaradat took a taxi to the Maxim restaurant overlooking the glistening Mediterranean Sea at Haifa in northern Israel. It was a bright October day, and patrons crowded the entrance waiting for seats. The security guard gave her a cursory search and ushered her inside.

She bought her driver lunch, delivered it to his car, and returned to the restaurant, where she paused near a group of baby carriages and blew herself up. She and 21 patrons died in the blast, including a family of five. She was the sixth of the now seven Palestinian women to attack Israel by blowing themselves up. In the last three years, there have been 129 suicide attacks by men against Israel.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2004/01/23/women_joining_ranks_of_suicide_bombers/

Old story? yes - but the last paragraph is chilling in regards to the mind of a suicide bomber.


"where she paused near a group of baby carriages and blew herself up."

Also forgotten is that this restaurant was co-owned and operated by an Israeli and an Arab. A reminder that to terrorists, ALL blood is cheap. How anyone can label men like Yassin anything but "stone cold serial murderers" is beyond me.


edit: note to mods, old story but new commentary - see date

[JohnLocke]

1. kick

[Ms. Wonderful]

2. Brainwashing is brainwashing.

When people are taught from birth to hate, why should it be so surprising that both genders act on that hate? :shrug: