Belgium investigates Iraq suicide attack

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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Belgian authorities were investigating whether a Belgian woman carried out a suicide attack in Iraq several weeks ago, officials said Tuesday.

France's RTL news service reported Tuesday that a woman with a recently issued Belgian passport carried out an attack in the Baghdad area, becoming the first European female suicide bomber in Iraq. RTL did not provide a source for its report. snip

Greg Frazho, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad, confirmed that a woman carried out a suicide car bomb against an American patrol in Baghdad on Nov. 9. But U.S. officials could not confirm the nationality of the attacker, the only person who was killed.

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1. Female Belgian suicide bomber hit Baghdad

Female Belgian suicide bomber hit Baghdad

BRUSSELS, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A woman who carried out a suicide attack in Iraq two weeks ago was identified Tuesday as the first European female suicide bomber.

The Belgian anti-terrorism unit has confirmed that the woman was a Belgian citizen who converted to Islam after her marriage to a Muslim fundamentalist, news service RTL reported Tuesday.

American military forces identified the woman at a combat scene in Baghdad. She was carrying recently issued Belgian identity papers which revealed she had traveled via Turkey. There are no traces of her radical husband who is believed to have organized her trip.

Around 10 percent of all suicide bombings the last 25 years have been carried out by women from the Middle East or Asia. It is, however, a first for a Western woman who has converted to Islam.

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