Desperate Al Qaeda Using Female Suicide Bombers

C'mon, Osama, you're that desperate, reduced to using women?

You're even less a man than I thought.

Then against, Islamofascists are the biggest cowards out there.

Three female suicide bombers blew themselves up within a few weeks late last year in Iraq, killing or wounding dozens — a tactic that goes against religious taboos on involving women in fighting and could indicate insurgents are growing increasingly desperate.

The bombings come as U.S.-led coalition forces are increasingly catching militants suspected of training women to become human bombs or finding evidence of efforts by al-Qaida in Iraq to recruit women, according to military records.

With coalition forces pushing extremists out of former strongholds and shrinking their pool of potential recruits, the militants are being forced to come up with other methods to penetrate stiffened security measures, said Diaa Rashwan, who follows Islamic militancy for Egypt's Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies.

"There's a sense that this is an act of desperation," said Col. Donald Bacon, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad.

Female suicide bombers are a small part of the insurgents' battle to force U.S. troops from Iraq and rattle Shiites from newly acquired power. Women have been responsible for 14 of 667 suicide attacks since May 2005, or 2 percent. They have caused at least 107 deaths, or 5 percent of the 2,065 people killed during this time period, according to Associated Press statistics.

Naturally, we owe some of this to cultural sensitivities.

Because of Muslim cultural sensitivities, women can be excellent candidates for suicide attacks when there are no female security guards. Most Iraqis are conservative Muslims who believe physical contact is forbidden between women and men not related by blood or marriage. As a result, women are often allowed to pass through male-guarded checkpoints without being searched. In October, the U.S. Army trained 20 women to work as security guards in a Baghdad suburb after a female suicide bomber entered a nearby building without being searched.

"We know it's a tactic that al-Qaida in Iraq is trying to use," Bacon said.

Speaking of female Al Qaeda, femme fatale Adam Gadahn is expected to release another tape.

Yawn.

The al-Qaeda network has announced the a new video message from American Christian convert to Islam, Adam Gadahn.

The message will be the first message from the organization in 2008.

"Coming soon by the will of God, an invitation to reflection and repentance,'' read the banner produced by al-Sahab, al-Qaeda's media wing, and displayed on a militant web site.

An image of the bearded Gadahn wearing a red and white checkered Arab scarf appears on the banner.

The California-born Gadahn has appeared in a number of videos produced by the al-Qaeda organization and is known as "Azzam the American".