Western white woman is suicide bomber

[Felix the Cat]

Western white woman is suicide bomber (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1898856,00.html)

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.

[Starr]

Why is it that when someone "finds" a new religion, they are often an instant extremely radical follower of it? It is a pretty funny pattern I have noticed.

I can't click on the link, but a picture of this woman could be a new avatar.:D

[Dances with Wolves]

A race mixer who did a good deed. Allah Akbar gurl! you'll now be a perpetual virgin.

[The Retard]

This young woman became prey to an extremist brainwashing cult!!

[OVERWATCH]

Hopefully it was nothing more than an 'own goal' due to premature detonation.

[Kodos]

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.


Where the fuck do they get these people... two bad shes dead... someone like this deserves to be boiled alive 50 times...

[Felix the Cat]

Militants linked to woman suicide bomber held in raids (http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=G50MIJSPN0JLVQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2005/12/01/wterr01.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/12/01/ixworld.html)

Police in Belgium and France yesterday arrested 15 suspected militants believed to be linked to a Belgian woman who carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq last month.

The 38-year-old convert to Islam blew herself up on Nov 9 on the outskirts of Baghdad in what security sources believe was the first suicide attack involving a European woman.

More than 200 heavily-armed officers raided addresses in Brussels and three other Belgian cities in the early hours of the morning. They arrested 14 people in an attempt to shut down the suspected network which smuggled the unnamed woman into Iraq.

The Belgian federal prosecutor's office said that two Tunisians and three Moroccans were among those arrested, while police also seized documents.

The fifteenth suspect, a Tunisian, was arrested near Paris.

The man, who was not previously known to police, was taken into custody because he knew the husband of the suicide bomber.

The husband, a Moroccan, is also believed to have died in Iraq, reportedly after being shot by American soldiers.

All those arrested were said by officials to be closely connected to the woman, a former drug addict and divorcee from the run-down French-speaking city of Charleroi.

The network had been under surveillance for four months after Belgium received intelligence about a suspected terror cell, but the country's small and overstretched security services failed to detect the woman leaving the country, officials admitted. Glenn Audernaert, a senior police official, said: "It was through this organisation that the lady went to Iraq with her husband, but we only knew about her presence … once she was already there."

She is thought to have been taken to Iraq overland via Turkey by her husband, a Muslim extremist.

Her suicide mission targeted an American military convoy but she only succeeded in killing herself.

US forces found a recent Belgian passport with her remains, triggering a European-wide intelligence operation.

Claude Moniquet, an intelligence analyst and director general of the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Centre, said: "The family are completely devastated, but sadly this is the classic profile: someone with bad family ties, and a history of trouble with the law.

"It allowed terrorist recruiters to work on her."

[Overberserker]

Has it been confirmed that she was a miscegenatrix?

[Schnee Weiss`]

Most women are stupid and easily lead. That's why they buy into every retarded concept that comes along.

[Jimbo Gomez]

She's been in the news here too. She was a heretical whore yes. May Satan skullf*ck her in hell until the end of days and well beyond.

I'm ashamed to have shared a country with that whore.

[Ambrosio Spinola]

Ebusitanus aproves of her blowing herself up. I would give her rep for doing so.

With some luck Heidi Klum will follow her iluminated ways.

[Anarch]

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/12/01/belgium.iraq/index.html (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/12/01/belgium.iraq/index.html)

Belgian paper IDs 'suicide bomber'




Thursday, December 1, 2005 Posted: 1137 GMT (1937 HKT)

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Belgium's Le Derniere Heure newspaper identified the suicide bomber as Muriel Degauque.

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(CNN) -- Police say they believe that a Belgian-born woman and convert to Islam, pictured and identified Thursday in a Belgian newspaper, was the first Western woman to carry out a suicide bombing in Iraq.

A spokesman for the Belgian police's terrorism investigation team confirmed to CNN that Muriel Degauque, identified and pictured by Le Derniere Heure newspaper, was believed to be the suicide bomber who targeted an American patrol November 9.

No one was killed but the bomber, who media reports said left a passport behind identifying her.

Authorities earlier refused to identify the woman but said she was 38.
Le Derniere Heure reported Degauque was born and raised in Charleroi, Belgium. The newspaper quoted her parents as saying that her Moroccan-born husband, Issam Goris, was responsible for her conversion to Islam.
Jean and Liliane Degauque told the newspaper their daughter was brainwashed by Goris.

The U.S. military in Baghdad said that on November 9, a female suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. military patrol just north of Baghdad, killing herself and slightly wounding one soldier.

Goris was killed in Iraq in a separate incident, according to media reports.
Officials on Wednesday said they had arrested a total of 15 people on suspicion of terrorism.

Belgian federal prosecutor Daniel Bernard told reporters that a police investigation "has shown the presence in Belgium of a structure of transportation, logistical backing and infiltration of volunteers willing to fight in Iraq."

Brussels judiciary police director Glenn Audeneert said, "It was through this organization that the lady went to Iraq with her husband, but we only knew about her presence on the war theatre once she was already there."

CNN's Pierre Bairin, Arwa Damon and Jim Bittermann contributed to this report

[Atlas]

Desperate thing... Let's blow up in Iraq. Poor girl...

[Jimbo Gomez]

I feel no sympathy, only contempt, for her.

[Atlas]

I don't have any simpathy either, it's just pathetic that a white woman can be brainwashed enough to decide to blow herself up amongst shitty arabs.

[Anarch]

I feel no sympathy, only contempt, for her.
Otherwise adequate breeding material. Yet another reason Muslims should be kept out of Europe by a wall of soliders carrying life ammunition: we've got a low enough birth rate as it is without having dune coons convince our women to roast themselves.

[Excorcism]

I'm willing to bet that she had a crazy muslim husband or lover and he convinced her to blow herself up. That's definitly fucked up. She seems pretty cute from the picture, I wonder how she was convinced, but I'm guessing it was self-esteem related.

[Ambrosio Spinola]

The plot thickens...

PARIS — The first female European Muslim convert to commit a suicide bombing in Iraq was a former bakery worker from a middle-class Belgian family who joined her husband in an extremist network that sent them to fight and die, authorities said Thursday.

As details emerged about a case involving at least one other suspected female jihadist, Belgian authorities decided to hold for prosecution five associates of the slain couple who had been arrested Tuesday and Wednesday, including the alleged leader of the network.


The Belgian woman died Nov. 9 during a car bomb attack on a U.S. troop convoy. Authorities identified her Thursday as Muriel Degauque, 36, a native of a town near the industrial city of Charleroi in southern Belgium.

Degauque's father is a retired factory worker and her mother is a secretary, officials said. Degauque had drug problems in her youth, married a Muslim and converted to Islam in her early 20s, they added. She plunged into fundamentalism several years ago with her second husband, a Moroccan-born extremist identified as Issam Goris.

"This was not a very young woman, but she was fragile psychologically," said a top Belgian law enforcement official involved in the investigation. The official requested anonymity for security reasons.

Degauque's mother, Lilliane, learned of her daughter's death Wednesday as police announced the arrests of 14 suspects in four Belgian cities and one near Paris. The mother told journalists she had not been able to reach her daughter by telephone for weeks. She said Goris and her daughter had been obsessively religious, pressuring relatives to shun television, cigarettes and alcohol and withdrawing into a secretive world.

"She was totally anchored in that religion," the mother told the newspaper Le Parisien. "She lived only for that. She learned Arabic…. She was very secretive, with a very independent character. I am furious at those who manipulated her."

Determined to become "martyrs" together, the couple made an odyssey by car from their home in Brussels through Turkey and into Iraq, U.S. and Belgian investigators said.

After the car bombing north of Baghdad, which slightly injured one soldier, U.S. troops found Degauque's passport, investigators said. Her husband died in a subsequent gunfight after Belgian police wiretaps helped lead U.S. troops to a hide-out near Fallouja.

The Belgian network allegedly was commanded by Bilal Soujhier, a Tunisian militant who was arrested this week in Brussels, the official said. Soujhier had ties to "several networks" including the forces of Jordanian militant Abu Musab Zarqawi in Iraq, the official said.

Belgian police arrested Soujhier's father on suspicion of extremist activity about 15 years ago, the official said. Two of Soujhier's brothers are also suspects in this week's case, one jailed and another missing in Iraq, the official added. Police believe another jailed suspect lost a leg in combat in Iraq before returning to Belgium.

Nine suspects in Belgium released Thursday included a married couple in Antwerp. Police identified them in recent days through wiretaps indicating the husband and wife were eager to leave for Iraq and carry out suicide attacks, the official said. The two remain under investigation.

Experts said the suicide attack by a European woman convert was a first, and they predicted it would not be the last.

"You will see pressure coming from the women themselves," said Marc Sageman, a forensic psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania and former CIA officer. "They are just as dedicated to the cause as the guys are. I argue that not only will it happen again, it's almost a certainty."

Degauque's case represents a logical step in the rise of women, especially converts, on the front lines of extremism. Women usually play support roles as wives or relatives of male militants, who enforce the strict separation of the sexes. But active female extremists have turned up in recent cases in Europe. Several female suspects, including a former Dutch police officer, were arrested last year in an alleged plot to assassinate Dutch political leaders.

European police also have kept watch on a charismatic figure named Malika Aroud, 46, the widow of a Brussels-based Al Qaeda suicide bomber who killed Ahmed Shah Massoud, the anti-Taliban guerrilla leader, in Afghanistan in 2001. A Belgian court acquitted Aroud in 2003 on terrorism charges related to a cell involved in that plot. But she now faces charges in Switzerland of inciting terrorism through a militant website operated with her second husband.

Female converts represent an explosive convergence of Western and fundamentalist culture, Sageman said. Militants who abide by fundamentalist guidelines have found religious justification for giving women combat roles, he said.