Belgium on Edge as Female Suicide Bomber's Terror Cell Jailed By Paul Cruickshank

Today five men were found guilty of being part of a Brussels-based terrorist cell that sent Muriel Degauque, a pretty Belgian baker’s assistant to die in Iraq. On November 9, 2005 Degauque became Al Qaeda’s first western female suicide bomber in Iraq when she drove an explosives-laden vehicle into an American military convoy on a highway north of Baghdad. No American soldiers were killed. The next day her husband, Issam Goris, who had accompanied her to Iraq was shot dead by U.S. forces in the Fallujah area as he prepared to launch a suicide bombing attack. When news of Degauque’s death was revealed to the press several weeks later it hit front pages around the world.

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