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Saturday, February 18, 2006

Let us put this in the box labled, "If You Can Not Beat Them..'



Mother. Daughter. Sister. Bomber.

Women are increasingly taking a leading role in conflicts by becoming terrorists--specifically, by becoming suicide bombers.

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The woman known as Dhanu stood waiting for former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. It was May 21, 1991. She wore thick glasses that obscured her face and clutched a sandalwood garland; the bulge beneath her orange salwar kameez (a traditional Hindu dress) bespoke her apparent pregnancy. As Gandhi strode toward the podium at the political rally where he was to speak, he acknowledged well-wishers lined along the red carpet. He clasped Dhanu's hand, and she respectfully kneeled before him. With her right hand she activated an explosive device strapped to her belly with a denim belt and embedded with 10,000 steel pellets. Gandhi, his assassin, and 16 others were killed.

Later it was revealed that a policewoman had attempted to prevent Dhanu--an assassin allegedly dispatched by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)--from reaching the prime minister. But Gandhi had intervened, saying something like, "Relax, baby"--quite possibly the last words he ever spoke.

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