Iraqi women in prisons....

A few weeks ago I was asking a journalist who came from Baghdad about that issue; has he any knowledge of it? He said he heard from a close friend of his in the police dpt. that these women were actually involved in terrorist acts, and some of them trained Iraqi women to blow up themselves. I asked him: why would they do something like this? But he said he doesn’t know.
The issue kept nagging in my mind, with a lot of questions- women blowing up themselves? Why?
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Yesterday, by chance, I found an article on the website of the New York Times, on a recent date: August 13th., 2009, it was titled: (How Baida wanted to die-NY Times.com). It was a 6 page article, showing the photograph of a woman with a black head cover, seeming to be at the end of her twenties, whose name was “Baida’…. The title: how she wanted to die…
The journalist told in full detail how she met Baida in a police prison in Baquba, as she was among those suspects caught at the beginning of 2008, where she told her tale in boring details; her childhood in a poor family, how her mother stopped her from going to school after 8th grade

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