According to the Associated Press, the U.S. military recently announced the capture of an insurgent leader who was recruiting and training women, including his wife, to wrap themselves in explosives and blow themselves up — the latest sign that al-Qaeda in Iraq plans to keep using women to carry out suicide attacks.In some environments women have made up almost 20% of suicide attacks, dispelling unhelpful myths that suicide bombers are motivated by some sort of carnal reward in heaven. On 5th July 2003 two women, dressed in western clothes, blew themselves up at the entrance to a pop concert in Moscow, killing 14. In August 2004, also in Russia, two women suicide bombers blew themselves up minutes apart in mid-air, destroying two airliners.
