The 20th Iraqi woman to strap on a suicide belt and attempt mass murder in Iraq didn't make it to her destination as Iraqi Awakening Council guards gunned her down setting off her suicide belt explosives. Her target was the headquarters of the Awakening Council's headquarters in Diyala province. Here's some of the details from CBS:
Al Qaeda in Iraq's strategy of recruiting women as suicide bombers has been one of their most deadly in the past six months but this is proof that U.S., Iraqi and Awakening forces are looking for this now. The scary part of it all is once the strategy has been identified, al Qaeda in Iraq is usually on to another one.
Iraqi guards opened fire on a female suicide bomber on Sunday and triggered her explosives belt before she reached their headquarters, foiling the latest of more than 20 suicide missions by women this year, military officials said. The bomber was targeting the headquarters of an awakening council - Sunni volunteers who have turned against insurgents - about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad. One of the guards was wounded in the blast, the Iraqi military said.
Al Qaeda in Iraq's strategy of recruiting women as suicide bombers has been one of their most deadly in the past six months but this is proof that U.S., Iraqi and Awakening forces are looking for this now. The scary part of it all is once the strategy has been identified, al Qaeda in Iraq is usually on to another one.
Suicide Bomber Gunned Down In Iraq
(AP) Iraqi guards opened fire on a female suicide bomber on Sunday and triggered her explosives belt before she reached their headquarters, foiling the latest of more than 20 suicide missions by women this year, military officials said. The bomber was targeting the headquarters of an awakening council - Sunni volunteers who have turned against insurgents - about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad. One of the guards was wounded in the blast, the Iraqi military said. The number of female suicide attackers has risen from eight in 2007 to more than 20 so far this year, according to U.S. military figures. Including Sunday's attack, at least nine have occurred in Diyala province, a former al Qaeda stronghold where the extremist group is trying to regroup after setbacks last year.
A female suicide bomber struck outside a government complex a week ago in Baqouba, the capital of Diyala province, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 40, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials. The attacks are part of an uptick in violence against Iraqi security forces and local administrations. A truck bomb detonated by remote control Sunday killed six policemen and an awakening council member in Duluiyah, some 45 miles north of Baghdad, said police Col. Mohammed Khalid.
In other violence, gunmen killed the head of Basra's intelligence department Saturday in a drive-by shooting in eastern Baghdad, local police said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
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