My friend Francis sent me this press release about female suicide bombers and wondered:
"what the hell do women suicide bombers get in that grand islamic heaven? the men get 40 black eyed virgins, and the women get.. 40 more layers over their faces? 40 more levels demoted from men? or do they get to walk outside without their face covered for 40 minutes? i'm going to read the koran to find out."
Suicide Bomber Kills Man in Uzbek City of Bukhara, AP Reports 2004-04-01 10:28 (New York)
By Heather Langan
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- A female suicide bomber killed a man today in the Uzbek city of Bukhara, the U.K.'s Sky News cited the Associated Press as saying.
The bomber survived the explosion, Sky said, citing AP.
Attacks this week in the central Asian nation are directly linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, AP cited Ilya Pyagay, deputy anti-terrorism chief at the Uzbek Interior Ministry, as saying earlier today.
A series of attacks killed at least 43 people in the country, including 19 who died in bomb blasts and shootings on Monday in the capital, Tashkent, and Bukhara, an ancient desert city that is one of Uzbekistan's prime tourist attractions. The attacks were the worst in the former Soviet republic since 1999.