12-01-2005, 04:34 PM
<b>'Belgian Kamikaze' Shocks a Nation</b>
<i>Local Woman Dies in Failed Attack Against U.S. Troops in Iraq</i>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The 38-year-old woman's mother, Liliane Degauque, told local TV networks that <b>her daughter was "so nice'' - but began to change when she married an Algerian man and turned to Islamic fundamentalism</b>.
The case underscored the growing reach of international terrorism.
<b>"It is the first time that we see that a Western woman, a Belgian, marrying a radical Muslim, and is converted up to the point of becoming a jihad fighter,'' </b>federal police director Glenn Audenaert said.
In her younger years, Muriel Degauque lived a conventional life in an industrial belt of southern Belgium. Media reports said she finished high school before taking on several jobs, including selling bread in a bakery. They also said that as an adolescent she had run into problems with drugs and alcohol.
Authorities say Degauque went on to become a member of a terror cell that embraced al-Qaida's ideology. It included her second husband, a man of Moroccan origin who died in a separate terror attack in Iraq.
"This is our Belgian kamikaze killed in Iraq,'' read the headline of Thursday's La Derniere Heure newspaper, over a picture of a smiling young woman looking into the camera.
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How West is going to control new Islamist?
Same can happen in India or infact it already did, one sikh married to Kashmir muslim was involved in parilament attack.
<i>Local Woman Dies in Failed Attack Against U.S. Troops in Iraq</i>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The 38-year-old woman's mother, Liliane Degauque, told local TV networks that <b>her daughter was "so nice'' - but began to change when she married an Algerian man and turned to Islamic fundamentalism</b>.
The case underscored the growing reach of international terrorism.
<b>"It is the first time that we see that a Western woman, a Belgian, marrying a radical Muslim, and is converted up to the point of becoming a jihad fighter,'' </b>federal police director Glenn Audenaert said.
In her younger years, Muriel Degauque lived a conventional life in an industrial belt of southern Belgium. Media reports said she finished high school before taking on several jobs, including selling bread in a bakery. They also said that as an adolescent she had run into problems with drugs and alcohol.
Authorities say Degauque went on to become a member of a terror cell that embraced al-Qaida's ideology. It included her second husband, a man of Moroccan origin who died in a separate terror attack in Iraq.
"This is our Belgian kamikaze killed in Iraq,'' read the headline of Thursday's La Derniere Heure newspaper, over a picture of a smiling young woman looking into the camera.
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How West is going to control new Islamist?
Same can happen in India or infact it already did, one sikh married to Kashmir muslim was involved in parilament attack.