En belgisk kvinne som var konvertitt til islam skal ha sprengt seg selv i lufta i Irak, melder fransk etterretning. Hun skal ha vært gift med en radikal islamist. Meldingen betyr ny hodebry for etterretningstjenestene. Også europeisk-utseende kvinner og menn kan være selvmordsbombere.

Vedkommende er den første kvinnelige europeiske selvmordsbomberen.

European intelligence officials learned that US troops in Iraq recently found the re2_kommentars of a European woman at the site of a suicide attack with a Belgian passport.

Unconfirmed reports on RTL France radio, said that the woman’s Belgian nationality had been established by her home country’s security service, the Sûreté de l’État.

Belgian counter-terrorism experts had established that the woman converted to Islam and was married to an Islamist radical. Her passport showed that she had reached Iraq via Turkey, and that the journey was carried out partly overland, RTL stated.

Suicide bomber ‘was Belgian woman’