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(AP) BOSTON An MIT student has been arrested at gunpoint after allegedly walking into Logan International Airport with a fake bomb strapped to her chest this morning. State police say 19-year-old Star Simpson, a sophomore from Hawaii, had a computer circuit board, wiring and a putty that later turned out to be Play-Doh in plain view over a black hooded sweatshirt she was wearing. Stay with wbztv.com and WBZ-TV for the latest on this developing story.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. troops fought it out with insurgents over the last 24 hours in and near Tarmiya, one of the many volatile spots on the northern Baghdad outskirts, the military reported on Friday. U.S. soldiers from Alpha Company run across a street during a operation in west Baghdad on August 16, 2007. A U.S. soldier and 13 insurgents, including a armed female wearing a ski mask, were killed. Also, a boy was killed in a building during fighting. Many people were detained as well. The first incident occurred late Thursday when soldiers from Task Force Lightning came...

Israeli Forces Say They Captured Pregnant Would-Be Bomber Wednesday, June 13, 2007 JERUSALEM — Israeli security forces arrested a pregnant Palestinian mother of eight and her niece, also a mother, as they worked to carry out a pair of suicide bombings in Israel, the Shin Bet security agency said Wednesday. While several women have blown themselves up in attacks on Israelis in recent years, among them a 64-year-old grandmother, there is no record of a pregnant woman attempting such an attack. A Shin Bet statement said 39-year-old Fatima Zak and her niece Rawda Habib, 30, were stopped at the Erez...

Islamic Jihad warns Israel of 'surprises' should IDF invade Gaza Strip; dozens of female suicide bombers eager to blow themselves up, take soldiers with them Ali Waked Published: 05.20.07, 11:37 / Israel News VIDEO - Islamic Jihad's military branch released a warning Sunday morning that dozens of women were ready to defend the Palestinian people if the IDF invaded the Gaza Strip. The organization said it was fully prepared to retaliate "if the Zionist enemy committed foolish acts against Palestinians in the Strip." "The enemy's threat to act in the Strip will not be fruitful and their goals will not...

I was listening to WMAL while running errands tonight and Chris Plante was talking about the Palestinian Media Watch website and, in particular, about an interview with two eleven year old girls which you can watch on that site.You really have to watch this stuff to believe it. All indications are that virtually all palestinian children wish to die as suicide bombers, and believe they will attain paradise thereby. Basically, the "palestinian" people need to be separated from the rest of the human race for at least as long as it takes for this entire generation of them to grow...

German authorities may have thwarted suicide bomb attacks in Iraq by German women. According to intelligence sources, three women were prevented from travelling to Iraq after one of them had announced she planned to blow herself up in Iraq. SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that German intelligence agencies have prevented three German women from travelling to Iraq in recent weeks. The women, who have close contacts to the Islamist scene in Germany and at least one whom has converted to Islam, came to the attention of intelligence agencies after one of them had announced on an Internet site that she intended...

Look what the Delhi Police have as specific leads on terror attacks on Republic Day: Female suicide bombers planning an attack and one ‘pregnant’ woman plotting to hijack a plane. The threats are listed in a special cell booklet. According to one input, two female suicide bombers are staying in a rented place in Bhogal near Nizammuddin Aulia. In the city on the pretext of selling shawls, the women are staying with a militant with the alias Pintoji. The police have stepped up tenant verification in the area. According to another input, seven “highly motivated” militants of the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba have...

When it was learned earlier this month that Murielle Degauque, a pretty, blue-eyed Belgian woman wedded to a Moroccan, had traveled to Iraq and blown herself up in a suicide bombing, the world – and no less, the media – responded with surprise. How did this blonde, all-European girl become, of all things, a terrorist for Allah? Get used to it. Radicalization among Muslims in Europe is on the rise, and not only those born Muslim are affected – nor are only males.

Female Homicide Bombers Kill 27 in Police Academy Blast Tuesday, December 06, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq — Two women strapped with explosives blew themselves up at Baghdad's police academy on Tuesday, killing 27 people and wounding 32, the U.S. military said. The women blew themselves up in a classroom filled with students, the statement from Task Force Baghdad said. No U.S. forces were killed or wounded in the attack, it added. U.S. forces rushed to the scene to provide assistance, the statement said. Iraqi police said one bomb exploded in a cafeteria, while the other detonated during roll call. Police Lt....

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two women strapped with explosives blew themselves up at Baghdad's police academy on Tuesday, killing 27 people and wounding 32, the U.S. military said.</p> <p>The women blew themselves up in a classroom filled with students, the statement from Task Force Baghdad said. No U.S. forces were killed or wounded in the attack, it said.</p>

Until recently, many analysts in American government agencies saw the threat of women suicide bombers as a largely theoretical problem. Their best judgment was that "Al Qaeda Central" -- the close-knit organization around Osama bin Laden and ideologue Ayman Al-Zawahiri -- would resist any effort to use women as homicidal martyrs. What changed? The simplest answer is that Al Qaeda's core organization in Afghanistan and Pakistan and its avant-garde in Iraq need more recruits. Jordanian researcher Hassan Abu Hanieh, who knew Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi personally, says the terrorist leader is goading Muslim men. Before the attacks by women began, a...

Very little is known about the first woman to become a suicide bomber for Al Qaeda in Iraq, except that she dressed as a man. The clothes concealed the explosives strapped around her womb. "May God accept our sister among the martyrs," said a Web site linked to the organization of Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi. She had defended "her faith and her honor." Never before had any branch of Al Qaeda sent a woman on a suicide mission. Zarqawi broke the taboos. Zarqawi recruits where he can, he exploits whom he can and he attacks the softest of targets...

Lessons of a Belgian Woman’s suicide-attack in Iraq So Murielle Degauque is "the latest European, and the first woman, to join the lengthening list of bombers," in Iraq, according to the (London) Independent. Her bomb attack killed only herself, but her trajectory from working-class Belgian to Islamist suicide-bomber deserves a closer look, partly because what her life portends about Europe’s future and partly because it provides still more evidence that racial profiling ("search all Arab males") will not stop terrorist attacks. Let’s take the last one first. In my new book, Disinformation, I devote a chapter to debunking the idea...

LONDON: The story of Muriel Degauque, a white Belgian convert to Islam and the West's first woman suicide bomber, has shocked and alarmed European capitals and sent much of the Western world into a tailspin. Degauque, whose smiling, quintessentially-European, brown-haired visage, adorns newspaper front pages across the continent (TODAY, FRIDAY), blew herself up in the Iraqi town of Baquba, north of Baghdad early last month. Though tangled and incomplete reports from Iraq variously suggest Degauque managed to kill six others, or perhaps no one apart from herself, the white Belgian Muslim convert has posthumously detonated a devastating bomb that strikes...

Western White Woman a Suicide Bomber MIREILLE, who was born in Belgium to a white, middle-class Christian family, blew herself to pieces last month in a suicide attack against American troops near Baghdad. In one of the most extraordinary tales of Islamic radicalisation, she is thought to be the first white Western woman to carry out a suicide bombing. Belgian investigators, who arrested 14 people associated with her, are keeping the 38-year-old woman’s true identity secret, but details have started to emerge. She was from the southern Belgian town of Charleroi, married to a Moroccan and converted to an extreme...

MONCEAU-SUR-SAMBRE, Belgium (Dec. 1) - How could a young woman turn from Belgian baker's assistant to Baghdad suicide bomber? Belgium has been shocked by revelations that Muriel Degauque, an unassuming woman who grew up near the rust belt city of Charleroi, had entered Iraq from Syria and detonated explosives strapped to her body in a failed attack against U.S. troops. The 38-year-old woman's mother, Liliane Degauque, told local TV networks that her daughter was "so nice'' - but began to change when she married an Algerian man and turned to Islamic fundamentalism. The case underscored the growing reach of international...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Belgians were trying to come to terms Thursday with the news that a working class woman from an industrial southern city had turned from a "nice" shop assistant into a suicide bomber who blew herself up in Iraq. "This is our Belgian kamikaze killed in Iraq," headlined the newspaper La Derniere Heure on Thursday over a picture of a thoroughly normal-looking, smiling girl looking into the camera. When her mother, Liliane Degauque, saw police coming to her doorstep on Wednesday, she immediately knew what it was about. The evening before, she had heard the reports there...

MONCEAU-SUR-SAMBRE, Belgium - Authorities have identified a woman who carried out a suicide attack against a U.S. patrol in Iraq as a 38-year-old Belgian who had two marriages to radical Muslim men. Muriel Degauque, who grew up near the industrial city of Charleroi, entered Iraq from Syria last month and detonated explosives strapped to her body in a failed attack against U.S. troops. Her mother, Liliane Degauque, told Belgian TV networks that her daughter was "so nice" — but began to change when she married an Algerian man and turned to Islamic fundamentalism. The case underscored the growing reach of...

Stunned Belgians are starting to get a clearer picture of the Belgian woman identified as a suicide bomber killed in Iraq last month. La Derniere Heure newspaper published a photo of the woman it said was the bomber, and interviewed her mother.

MIREILLE, who was born in Belgium to a white, middle-class Christian family, blew herself to pieces last month in a suicide attack against American troops near Baghdad. In one of the most extraordinary tales of Islamic radicalisation, she is thought to be the first white Western woman to carry out a suicide bombing. Belgian investigators, who arrested 14 people associated with her, are keeping the 38-year-old woman’s true identity secret, but details have started to emerge. She was from the southern Belgian town of Charleroi, married to a Moroccan and converted to an extreme form of Islam. “This is how...