Thursday, December 01, 2005
Western Female Suicide Bomber
Another first. Or as the Bush Administration would say: "Now there's one less terrorist in Europe. Our mission in Iraq is succeeding."
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 on November 9
