Equal opportunity for women, Islamo-fascist style

And you didn't think fundamentalist Muslims would allow women to blow themselves up for Allah. BAGHDAD (AP)-[off the wire, no link]-A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed vehicle near a U.S. military patrol in northern Iraq Tuesday, police said. It was the first known suicide car bombing by a woman since the country's bloody insurgency began two years ago. The site of the attack in Mosul city was quickly closed off by U.S. forces in the residential neighborhood of al-Hadbaa, and it was not immediately known whether the blast caused any casualties in the patrol, said police Capt. Ahmed Khalil. In Baghdad, the U.S. military said it had no information about the attack. The remains of the suicide bomber were identified as those of a woman, said Khalil and Dr. Bahaa al-din al-Bakri, who works at the local hospital that received the remains in Mosul, 360 kilometers northwest of Baghdad. Male militants often have carried out numerous suicide car bomb attacks against Iraqi security forces, U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians, but the Mosul attack was the first one known to have been carried out by a woman driver since the insurgency began. The only other successful suicide attack by a woman in Iraq occurred on Sept. 28, when a female with explosives hidden beneath her traditional white robe set them off after she stood in line outside an Iraqi army recruitment center in the western city of Tal Afar, killing at least six people and wounding 30. Before the insurgency began, Saddam Hussein's regime is known to have used female suicide bombers at least once: Just before the April 2003 fall of Baghdad, two women detonated their car near the city of Haditha, killing three U.S. soldiers. Women strapped with explosives have attempted other suicide bombings on foot - without using a car bomb - but were captured before they could carry out their attacks. Copyright © 2005 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.(AP-DJ)--10-11-05 1454EDT Now even women can grow up to be terrorists. This must make NOW so proud. Similar stories from Yahoo, WaPo, and National Geogrphic.