Western Woman Becomes Suicide Bomber

One thing that you can say about life is that it is never dull. In a sign that there are going to continue to be twists and turns in the war on terror the media is reporting that a Belgian woman became the first known Westerner to serve as a suicide bomber.

The story can be found here.

"A spokesman for the Belgian police's terrorism investigation team confirmed to CNN that Muriel Degauque, identified and pictured by Le Derniere Heure newspaper, was believed to be the suicide bomber who targeted an American patrol November 9.

No one was killed but the bomber, who media reports said left a passport behind identifying her.

Authorities earlier refused to identify the woman but said she was 38.

Le Derniere Heure reported Degauque was born and raised in Charleroi, Belgium. The newspaper quoted her parents as saying that her Moroccan-born husband, Issam Goris, was responsible for her conversion to Islam.

Jean and Liliane Degauque told the newspaper their daughter was brainwashed by Goris.

The U.S. military in Baghdad said that on November 9, a female suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. military patrol just north of Baghdad, killing herself and slightly wounding one soldier.

Goris was killed in Iraq in a separate incident, according to media reports."