Gaza: Islamic Jihad Training Young Girls to be Suicide Bombers....
What a delightful religion.....
There is a ceasefire in Gaza, but the BBC has found evidence of militant groups preparing for a return to violence. One group, Islamic Jihad, is training female suicide bombers.
Middle East correspondent Paul Wood went to meet a Palestinian woman who has volunteered.
The young, veiled woman was sitting quiet and still as the room bustled around her.
The black flag of Islamic Jihad was pinned on the wall behind her and two Kalashnikovs were carefully placed in camera shot. Her husband, an Islamic Jihad fighter himself, tied on her "martyr's" headband.
Umm Anas - not her real name - had just graduated from a programme to train female suicide bombers in Gaza.
Our meeting was a highly-orchestrated propaganda event laid on by Islamic Jihad. It was almost theatre - and certainly Israel accuses the Palestinian leadership of manipulating young women like 18-year-old Umm Anas.
Yet, although she nervously twisted her wedding ring, Umm Anas did not appear to be a cipher.
She was articulate - more so than the men staging the event - and she knew her own mind.
When she spoke of becoming a suicide bomber, Umm Anas's voice was strong and steady: "This is a gift from God.
"We were created to become martyrs for God," she continued, her eyes burning behind the full face veil.
ZIP
One of the ways her husband can trade her in for a fresh new 10-year old wife. At 18 with 5 kids, she's lived a full life and is ready to become a bomb.
Posted by: Deez | October 13, 2008 at 12:49 PM
The wife is probably willing to die ...just to get away from her husband..
Posted by: pulsar182 | October 13, 2008 at 07:44 PM
Somebody please introduce these people to a "carefully orchestrated" Hellfire missile.
Posted by: Jack | October 13, 2008 at 08:52 PM
Genocide is increasingly looking like the only way this palestinian problem is going to be solved. It's horrible to say but let's face the facts-these "people" have no interest in doing anything useful, peaceful or constructive in this world. Better to commit genocide against them before they commit it against people who only want to be left in peace.
Posted by: Poopyhead | October 13, 2008 at 10:06 PM