Bombshell (39 page)

63
Ken Conboy,
The Second Front: Inside Jemaah Islamiya, Asia's Most Dangerous Terrorist Network
, London: Equinox, 2005, pp. 55–56 and “Highly Covert U.S.-Thai Operation Nabbed Hambali,” International Regional Security Agency,
www.irs-agency.us/recent_captures.htm

64
Marc Sageman,
Understanding Terror Networks
, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004, p. 113.

65
Zainah Anwar,
Islamic Revivalism in Malaysia: Dakwah among the Students
, Kuala Lumpur: Pelanduk Press, 1987; Lenore Manderson,
Women, Politics and Change: The Kaum Ibu UMNO of Malaysia 1945–1972
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.

66
Noor, op. cit.

67
Interview with Sidney Jones, December 2009.

68
Sally White, “The Wives of Noordin Top, “
Inside Indonesia
, 2009,
www.insideindonesia.org/content/view/1254/47

69
E-mail correspondence with Sally White, December 17, 2009.

70
Abdul Khalik, “Noordin's Wife Privy to Terror Plans: Police Source,”
Jakarta Post
, October 11, 2004.

71
Sally White, “The Wives of Noordin Top,” op. cit.

72
Sally Neighbour, op. cit., pp. 173–74.

73
BBC World, “Al Qaeda's Surf Chick,” August 13, 2009,
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2009/08/090804_outlook_rabiah_hutchinson.shtml

74
Tom Allard and Cynthia Banham, “ASIO Took Mum's Passport of Terror Suspects,”
Sydney Morning Herald
, November 3, 2006.

75
“Jemaah Islamiya Recruiting Women for Bombing Missions,” ABS–CBN News, July 13, 2007.

76
Simon Elegant, “Untangling the Web,”
Time
, January 28, 2002,
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,197713,00.html

77
Renier Hendrik Van Der Merwe, “
Jemaah Islamiya—Critical Discussion of Tactics and Threats,” NewsBlaze
, November 22, 2009
http://newsblaze.com/story/20091122185010iiis.nb/topstory.html

78
Zoe Murphy and Yoki Sari, “Bali Bomber Ali Imron Becomes Comic Book Character,” BBC News, August 6, 2010,
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10893889

79
Ibid.

7  The Recruiters and Propagandists

1
“Al Qaeda's Stance on Women Sparks Extremist Debate,” Associated Press, May 31, 2008,
www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Al-Qaidas-Women.html?pagewanted=print
.

2
Canadian Embassy of Afghanistan, Bulletin 2031, Afghan News 06/01/2008,
www.afghanemb-canada.net/en/news_bulletin/2008/june/01/index.php
.

3
Interview with the author (name withheld), January 2010.

4
French senior counter-terrorism magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguière, quoted in
The New York Times
, May 28, 2008,
www.covenentzone.blogspot.com

5
CNN “One Woman's War,” Part 1,
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2009/02/10/wus.one.womans.
war.bk.b.cnn

6
Marie Rose Armesto,
Groot Bijgaarden de Standaard
, December 22, 2007.

7
CNN, “One Woman's War,” op. cit.

8
On May 12, 2009, Ayachi was charged with being the leader of a logistical support team for Al Qaeda in Europe. Wiretaps suggested his involvement in a plot against Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.

9
Mark Eeckhaut, “Bastin's Muslim Elite,”
Groot Bijgaarden De Standaard
, November 23, 2004.

10
Malika, veuve du Moujahid Shahid (Insha‘Allah) Dahmane Abdessater (RA),
Les Soldats de la Lumière
. 2003 available at
www.archive.org/details/lumiere_580

11
Neil J. Kressel, “When Moderate Religion Fails: Some Social and Psychological Roots of Extremist Faith,” paper presented at the 30th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Portland Oregon, July 6, 2007, p. 4.

12
CNN, “One Woman's War,” op. cit.

13
Wall Street Journal
, September 11, 2002;
Los Angeles Times
, September 11, 2002.

14
Lawrence Wright, “My Trip to Al Qaeda.” HBO Documentaries, September 7, 2010.

15
Sid Ahmed Hammouche, La Prison pour Malika el Aroud, icone D'Al Qaeda en Europe, Rue 89, La Liberte, May 11, 2010,
www.rue89.com/2010/05/11la-prison-pour-malika-el-aroud-icone-dalqaeda-en-europe-150963

16
Stephen Wright, “Woman Who Preached Jihad on the Internet Charged with Five Other al Qaeda Militants Over Plot to Kill EU Leaders,”
Mail Online
, December 12, 2008.

17
Scott Stewart, STRATFOR, the Curious Case of Adlène Hicheur, ee-online,
www.stratfor.com
;
www.eesti.ca/?op=article&articleid=25664

18
Nic Robertson, “Belgian Al Qaeda Cell Linked to 2006 airline plot,” CNN,
www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/10/belgium.terror/index.html
“Alerta en la Inteligencia europea ante posibles nuevos atentados de Al Qaeda en Francia y Bruselas,” May 16, 2009,
http://globedia.com/alerta-inteligencia-europea-posible-atentado-qaeda-francia-brusela

19
Cited by Paul Cruickshank, “Love in the Time of Terror,”
Marie Claire
magazine, May 18, 2009.

20
CNN, “One Woman's War,” op. cit.

21
Elaine Sciolino and Souad Mekhennet, “Al Qaeda Warrior Uses Internet to Rally Women,”
New York Times
, May 28, 2008,
www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/world/europe/28terror.html

22
Malika el Aroud's signature line from her jihadi website,
www.minbar-sos.com

23
Malika el Aroud,
www.minbar-sos.com
, December 13, 2007.

24
Malika el Aroud,
Les Soldats de la Lumière
.

25
Panorama Program,
Al Arabiyah
television, December 16, 2008.

26
Claude Moniquet, president of the Brussels-based European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center, cited by Elaine Sciolino and Souad Mekhennet, “Al Qaeda Warrior Uses Internet to Rally Women,”
New York Times
, op. cit.

27
CNN, One Woman's War, op. cit.

28
Sciolino and Mekhennet, op. cit.

29
“European Gang Trained for Terror,” CNN, July 31, 2009,
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/30/robertson.al.qaeda.europe/index.html

30
“8 jar cel voor Malika el Aroud,” (8-year sentence for Malika el Aroud), DeMorgen.be, Belgium, May 10, 2010,
www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/989/Binnenland/article/detail/1104029/2010/05/10/8-jaarcel-voor-Malika-El-Aroud.dhtml

31
David Cook, “Women Fighting Jihad?”
Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
, vol. 28, pp. 375–84, p. 375.

32
“Milanese Wife Converts to Islam for Love,”
La Stampa
, Milan, November 14, 2003,
http://archivio.lastampa.it/LaStampaArchivio/main/History/tmpl_viewObj.jsp?objid=4841320

33
http://media.nbcphiladelphia.com/documents/JihadJane.pdf

34
“Al Qaeda puts bounties on heads of Swedes,” AFP, in
The Local
, September 15, 2007,
www.thelocal.se/8498/20070915

35
“Al Khansa'a, Poetess of Courage and Pride,”
Arab News
, 5/27/1998,
www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/980527/1998052703.html

36
Javid Hassan, “Women Come Out Against Extremist Internet Magazine,”
Arabic News
, September 7, 2004,
http://archive.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=51115&d=7&m=9&y=2004

37
Quoted in Loch Johnson,
Strategic Intelligence
, vol. 1, London: Praeger Security International, 2006, p. 173.

38
Farhana Ali, “Rising Female Bombers in Iraq, An Alarming Trend,”
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/04/rising_female_bombers_in_iraq.php

39
Interviews with Iraqi war veterans, USMC, and Special Forces, November 2009.

40
Craig S. Smith, “Raised as Catholic in Belgium, She Died as a Muslim Bomber,”
New York Times
, December 6, 2005,
www.nytimes.com/2005/12/06/international/europe/06brussels.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

41
Anthony Browne and Rory Watson, “The girl who went from baker's assistant to Baghdad bomber,”
The Times
, December 2, 2005,
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article744833.ece

42
Paul Wilkinson, “Zarqawi's Death and the Iraqi Insurgency,” National Public Radio,
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5459914

43
Interviews with the author, Fort Bragg, 2007.

44
“Increase in Female Bombers Raises Concern,” CBS News, January 4, 2008,
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/04/iraq/main3677485.shtml

45
Al Arabiya
Television, July 29, 2008.

46
Farhana Ali, op. cit.

47
“Iraqi TV Broadcasts Statements of Women who Reportedly Attacked Checkpoint,” Fox News, April 4, 2003,
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83169,00.html

48
Mia Bloom, “Female Suicide Bombers: A Global Trend,”
Daedalus
(Winter 2007), p. 7.

49
“Sisters in Jihad,”
www.iraqi-alamal.org/Doc/somaya.pdf

50
Aqeel Hussein and Damien McElroy, “Mother of All Suicide Bombers Warns of Rise in Attacks,”
Daily Telegraph
, November 15, 2008,
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/3464411/Mother-of-all-suicide-bombers-warns-of-rise-in-attacks.html

51
Uthman al Mukhtar, “Al Arab Opens the File of Female Suicide Bombers in the Land of the Two Rivers,”
Al Arab
Online, Doha, June 25, 2008.

52
Farhana Ali, op. cit.

53
Al Arabiya
Television, July 29, 2008.

54
Al Arabiya
Television, “The Death Industry,” October 3, 2008.

55
In one recent story she was referred to as Rania Al Anbaki. Ali Mohammed, “Would be suicide bomber recalls failed mission.” ICR Issue 348, August 5, 2010,
http://iwpr.net/report-news/would-be-suicide-bomber-recalls-failed-mission

56
Muhammed Al Tammimi, “Concern Over the Kidnapping of Girls for Use in Suicide Attacks,”
Al Hayah
, London, October 10, 2008.

57
Niqash article, “Sumaya, A Fortunate Iraqi Female Suicide Bomber Among Al Qaida's Women,”
Awan
, Kuwait, August 23, 2008.

58
Khoulud Ramzi, “Sumaya Reluctant Suicide Bomber,” August 12, 2008,
www.iraqi-alamal.org/Doc/somya.pdf
also at
www.niqash.org/content.php?contentTypeID=75&id=2275&lang=0

59
Al Arabiya
Television, July 6, 2008.

60
Several Halliburton employees (e.g., Jaime Lee Jones) are claiming to have been raped by U.S. soldiers. Also, many of the returning soldiers have come home with post-traumatic stress disorder, which has resulted in an upsurge of domestic violence, suicide, and killing of spouses. The 4th Infantry's Second Battalion (the “Lethal Warriors”) have had eight members accused of murder or attempted murder since 2007. Upon his return from Iraq, one soldier from the company, Robert Marko Hull, raped and slit the throat of a nineteen-year-old learning-disabled woman. See Tim McGirk, “The Hell of PTSD,”
Time
, November 30, 2009, pp. 41–43.

61
In Algeria, Al Qaeda-affiliated groups have had male recruits raped to prepare them to be suicide bombers. Intense social stigma and fear of more gay sex attacks leaves Muslims prepared to die. According to news reports, there was a large tear in the terrorist's anus to confirm the allegations of sexual abuse. One of the young terrorists was aged twenty-two, from Diar El Djemaâ, El Harrach, and was supposed to execute a suicide operation in the region of Boumerdes. “Al Qaeda accused of using male rape to ‘create' suicide bombers,”
Pink News
, February 4, 2009,
www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-11023.html

62
Steven Lee Myers, “Iraq Arrests Woman Tied to Bombings,”
New York Times
, February 4, 2009.

63
Ibid.

64
“16 Killed as Veiled Female Bomber Hits Police Station,”
Kuwaiti Times
, April 11, 2007,
www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NDI2MTY1NTE2

65
Islamic Front for Iraqi Resistance, JAMI, August 8, 2008.

66
Al Arabiyah
Television, July 6, 2008.

67
The name derives from the
Qur'an
—Asma, Abu Bakr's daughter and Aisha's sister, cut a piece of cloth from her waist belt and tied the mouth of the leather bag with it; she tore it in two and gave one piece to the Prophet Muhammed (PBUH). For that reason she was named
dhat al nitaqayn
, the “One with Two Waist Belts.”

68
Kaishan al Bayati, “Supervision Is Tightened against Women; Officials Fear Female Suicide Bombers in Baghdad,”
Al Arab
online, Doha, June 25, 2008.

69
Lawrence Wright,
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
, New York: Knopf, 2006; see also Steve Coll,
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
, New York: Penguin, 2008.

70
“Women plead with Al Qaeda to join jihad: report.”
Al Arabiya
, June 2, 2008,
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/06/02/50858.html
.

71
Umayma Al Zawahiri, “Risalat illah al Akhawat al Muslimat” (Letter to my Muslim Sisters),
www.jihadica.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/umayma-al-zawahiri-risala-jan-2010.pdf
. See also Nelly Lahoud, “Umayma Al Zawahiri on Women's Role in Jihad,” February 26, 2010,
the-real-islam.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=315