Bombing girls

Schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram are being used as suicide bombers

The speculation has arisen following a number of female suicide bombings in Kano, Nigeria, while a ten-year-old girl wearing explosives was found in Katsina state.

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In Iraq, suicide bombers were often jihadist volunteers from Syria or elsewhere who were sent on a mission to drive a truck from one place to another, and then turn it over to another driver at a certain, specific location. They were told no single driver could drive the whole way for security reasons.

What they were not told is that the truck carried a massive bomb and that when they reached the switch-over point it would be remotely detonated. We learned this from interrogating drivers who survived, usually because the bomb was faulty.

It was amazing how quickly those jihadist wannabes lost their fervor when they realized that al Qaeda had basically tried to murder them.

I have to wonder whether a similar tactic is being employed by Boko Haram.