"BAGHDAD – A teenage Iraqi girl who claimed her husband's female relatives strapped explosives on her has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for attempting
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The article goes on to describe the increase of such attempts by women in a society where because of cultural taboos, the mostly male police force does not routinely check robed women explosives.
The closing paragraph of this article is even more disturbing:
"In January, police arrested a middle-aged woman, Samira Ahmed Jassim, for allegedly recruiting female suicide bombers. In a prison interview, Jassim told The Associated Press about a plot in which young women were raped and then persuaded to carry out suicide attacks to reclaim their honor."
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