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Iraq: Failed Woman Suicide Bomber's Family Disowns Her
AKI ^ | Nov 14 2005

Posted on 11/15/2005, 7:11:29 AM by jmc1969

The family of an Iraqi woman who apparently tried and failed to detonate an explosives belt during the hotel bombings in the Jordanian capital Amman last week that killed 57 people and injured nearly 100, says what she did was "contrary our tribe's ethical code" and has disowned her.

"We hope she dies, and we never want to see her again. She is a disgrace," an unnamed family member was quoted as saying. Al-Rishawi, who a neighbour described as "a humble women, without any education or political ideology," is the sister of the right-hand-man of al-Qaeda in Iraq's leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Samer Mubarak Arous al-Rishawi, killed by US forces in Fallujah. She belongs to the Shammar clan, located in Ramadi, one of Iraq's Sunni strongholds.

Over the weekend, the woman, Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, 35, who should have been the fourth suicide bomber involved in the attacks, was shown on Jordanian television, with the explosives still strapped to her body. The Amman suicide bombings were claimed by al-Qaeda.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: jordan; suicide
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1 posted on 11/15/2005, 7:11:29 AM by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

Okay. So - did they disown her because she tried?

Or because she failed?


2 posted on 11/15/2005, 7:18:04 AM by geopyg (I BELIEVE CONGRESSMAN WELDON! (Ever Vigilant, Never Fearful))
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To: jmc1969

Yeah, right. Only because she FAILED.


3 posted on 11/15/2005, 7:18:46 AM by msf92497 (Uh Oh)
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To: geopyg

Probably because the bunch of pychotic cowardly mass murderering subhuman monkey mooselimbs don't want any Jordanians putting out a hit on her entire family.


4 posted on 11/15/2005, 7:20:22 AM by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: jmc1969
Where is the U.S. leftist-feminist outrage -- I can't hear anything!!

Oh, now I remember, the only defining point of the current ideology is "I hate Bush".

Therefore, any enemy of Bush is the left's friend, which means feminism's friend.

So feminists cannot bring themselves to condemn the most BLATENT abuse of an ill-educated, nonpolitical woman.

And this follows their unwillingness to condemn Bill Clinton's abuse of women.

At least the feminists have shown who they really are, and what they really care about.

5 posted on 11/15/2005, 7:23:45 AM by WL-law
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To: geopyg

But they're erecting a statue in her husband's honor!


6 posted on 11/15/2005, 7:32:03 AM by GVnana
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To: msf92497
Doesn't it seem obvious that she "chickened out". When these acts are done in isolation, the consequences remain an abstraction, and the only concrete reality to be dealt with is the pressing or releasing of a button. In her case, wasn't she faced with the carnage of her husband's demise? Wouldn't this naturally be a paralysing shock? Might this not have also released her from her husband's spell?

I have seen written attributions that the bomb belt "didn't work" and the like, but on the radio, I heard a direct translation of her comments which were that she "tried" but "failed" to set off the bomb, and this is entirely ambiguous.

7 posted on 11/15/2005, 7:33:57 AM by dr_lew
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To: jmc1969

Call me a sexist but I think that men make better suicide bombers than women do.


8 posted on 11/15/2005, 7:34:37 AM by opinionator
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To: jmc1969
"She belongs to the Shammar clan in Ramadi, a Sunni stronghold."

Anybody know anything about the Shammar clan?

9 posted on 11/15/2005, 7:37:48 AM by smoothsailing
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To: dr_lew

Yup. She "failed" to complete her mission.

I didn't say the device failed.

Maybe someone ought to "repair" the device, move her to a remote location, replace the device, and set it off remotely.


10 posted on 11/15/2005, 7:38:01 AM by msf92497 (Uh Oh)
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To: WL-law

Have you considered contacting NOW on this? Don't hold your breath for a response.


11 posted on 11/15/2005, 7:53:59 AM by IIntense (,)
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To: opinionator
Call me a sexist but I think that men make better suicide bombers than women do.

As Tom Cervo says, "I think we're getting into a weird area here."

12 posted on 11/15/2005, 7:54:08 AM by dr_lew
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To: msf92497
Maybe someone ought to "repair" the device, move her to a remote location, replace the device, and set it off remotely.

Why? By our lights she's a hero, if indeed she turned away from the act at the last instant, for whatever reason.

13 posted on 11/15/2005, 7:59:12 AM by dr_lew
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To: smoothsailing

I can't immediately put my finger on a link, but I do recall hearing that her particular clan has been divided concerning support for AQI and for the coalition. It is not always cut and dried, easy to figure out.

Where I heard it may have been at one of the audio links given here:

http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/11/steven_emerson__3.html


14 posted on 11/15/2005, 8:06:01 AM by Cap Huff
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To: dr_lew
"...that she 'chickened out'"?

If so, she had a few more working brain cells than her husband and the others. If her family really has disowned her, that might work to the benefit of the Jordan gov't. With not much to lose, she may be convinced to cooperate with investigators.

15 posted on 11/15/2005, 8:07:54 AM by IIntense (,)
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To: dr_lew

She said she tried to set hers off but it didn't work, and her husband shoved her back out the door before setting his off.


16 posted on 11/15/2005, 8:07:59 AM by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: dr_lew
"...weird area here."

Guess we're still in Halloween mode. That explains it.

17 posted on 11/15/2005, 8:15:11 AM by IIntense (,)
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To: Cap Huff
Thanks,Cap.The one thing I know about the tribes and clans is the fluidity,the shifting allegiances.

Her family could be quite sincere in disowning her, or just careful to not offend an enemy.

It's a tricky business, and they've been at probably since before history was written.

I do remember that Saddam marked the Shammar for exile or banishment,but I don't know his reason.

18 posted on 11/15/2005, 8:16:05 AM by smoothsailing
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To: opinionator
Call me a sexist but I think that men make better suicide bombers than women do.

Yeah. Better leave the butchery of self liquidation to the men, cupcake.
19 posted on 11/15/2005, 8:19:57 AM by Jaysun (Democrats: We must become more effective at fooling people.)
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To: dr_lew
>"Doesn't it seem obvious that she "chickened out"

Maybe she and slave owner/husband got their wireless detonators switched, and she really detonated him.
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