The truth about female suicide bombers in Iraq

Islamic extrem­ists and head of the Al-Maqreze Cen­ter in Lon­don Hani Al-Siba’i wrote an arti­cle denies the con­nec­tion between female sui­cide bombers in Iraq and Al-Qaeda.The arti­cle “The truth about female sui­cide bombers brigades and the con­nec­tion with Al-Qaeda” is an answer to a ques­tion from Islam online:

Recently we noticed the increase of women par­tic­i­pants in com­bat and mar­tyr­dom oper­a­tions against the Amer­i­can occu­pa­tion in Iraq. How do you analyse this new phe­nom­e­non, and are these women mem­bers of Al Qaeda?

Al-Siba’I answer is not about if such “female sui­cide brigade” exists or not, the arti­cle is to refute the Amer­i­can claims that Al-Qaeda by uses of women is chang­ing tactics.

In one of his points, Al-Siba’i reminds the read­ers that “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” never issued a sin­gle state­ment for two years because the orginiza­tion is melted with other Iraqi resis­tance groups in on entity called “Islamic State of Iraq”.

The above point is con­nected to this sec­ond point :

There is no state­ment issued by Al-Qaeda about the estab­lish­ment of women-martyrs sub-organization before or after the Al-Qaeda joined the “Islamic State”.

Again, Al-Siba’i do not deny the exis­tence of these orga­ni­za­tions, but he insists on:

1– It is not Al-Qaeda tactic-change as the Amer­i­cans claim [he says RAND dic­tated claims]. They are not a sub-organization of Al-Qaeda.

2– Female sui­cide bombers are prob­a­bly the wives and sis­ters of mar­tyred Mujahdeen in Iraq seek­ing revenge from the occu­pa­tion forces.

3– Although we see these women sui­cide oper­a­tions only in coun­tries under direct occu­pa­tion such as Pales­tine, Iraq, Chech­nya and Afghanistan, but in Islam there are restric­tions limit the women par­tic­i­pa­tions in Jihad [and sui­cide bombings].

4– Also there are women sui­cide oper­a­tions by sec­u­lar, social­ist and none– Islamic groups such as Kur­dish PKK fighter, Iran’s Mujahdeen Khalq, and Tamil Tigers in Asia [he means that the such female oper­a­tions are not an Islamic trade­mark].

P.S.

Not long time ago, I reported about the for­ma­tion of “female sui­cide bombers” by Iraqi resis­tance group Jaami, which is not AL-Qaeda.