Sometimes, human nature cannot quite give way altogether to violent fanaticism. "Iraqi woman with bomb vest turns herself in," from The Associated Press, August 24 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
BAGHDAD: U.S. military officials say a woman wearing a bomb-laden vest has turned herself in to Iraqi police rather than blow herself up.The would-be suicide bomber surrendered Sunday in the city of Baqouba. U.S. officials say she led police to a second suicide vest, and that a 13-year-old girl was arrested at that time.
The woman and the girl are in Iraqi police custody.
maybe she discovered after doing some research that only Muslim women blow themselves up...she may have questioned Whazzz up wit dat...
A woman and a 13 year old girl. Pitiful.
There may be hope for this woman, after all, and perhaps the police will be able to obtain some intelligence from her, assuming she has any!
She realized that there is no islamic heaven for women, all she would be doing was servicing muslim men in hell.
They will send her to Islamic counseling, then she will put the vest back on and complete the job.
From above:
Baqouba? These gals are as good as dead.
Not so long ago . . .Baqouba was described as an al-Qaida haven
here:
and here
and al-Qaida in Iraq leader al-Zarqawi was killed near Baqouba.
How much influence remains over the last two years is anyones guess . . .but those aren't
odds I'd play.
I can't imagine that this woman has much of a future ahead of her.
The true believers are going to see this as a betrayal, and will want "justice". I don't know when/if she will be released from jail, but she won't survive long on the outside.
The story doesn't really say anything about the 13-year-old girl. The circumstances of her arrest may have been such that the true believers don't view her as a traitor (or maybe not), but it hardly matters to her. The only question is whether they execute her, or use her as a suicide bomber. Either way, not much of a future.
On the other hand, as females in a Muslim country, neither one of them ever had a future to begin with.
Does anyone think this woman can just go home with no repercussions? Sooner or later, someone will have to give her asylum. She has proven herself unworthy of the trust placed in her by those who strapped that bomb on her. Since she wouldn't kill herself, they'll have to do the job for her. And they will, if she remains anywhere in dar-al-Islam.
Even the younger girl is damaged goods and is probably not long for this world. She didn't betray anyone but her arrest means her name is known and so her value as a bomber is gone.
A would-be mass murderer with a sense of self-preservation. Who would have imagined? We may never hear, but I wonder what changed her mind.
The Iraqi police are brutal. No doubt she will suffer enough abuse to make her regret turning herself in. That is the sad part. Female bombers very much know that if they failed they will be subject to gang rapes with no hope of getting out and if they are ever released their own family will kill them.
What a difference. In the West, men generally try to protect their women and children. Moslems send them to their deaths, probably because they don't have the intestinal fortitude to commit these heinous acts themselves. Big brave bastards!