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...farmer is Kajaki Sofla, a bustling town on the banks of the Helmand River that is the local Taliban headquarters. It holds the region's largest bazaar, an essential stop for daily necessities like tea, oil and sugar. To get to the bazaar, travelers must pass through a Taliban checkpoint, where they are taxed and interrogated. Those suspected of collaborating with the British are beaten, or worse. Shervington can do nothing about it. All he can do is pace his area of operations like a caged lion, impotent against the Taliban forces taunting him on the other side...
...joined an insurgent group linked to al-Qaeda. Hasna, who doted on her brother, had pushed him to become a leader in the group. Thamer volunteered for his own suicide mission in early 2007. On a February morning, he was being driven to the Kilometer 5 security checkpoint by fellow jihadis when one of their belts exploded prematurely, killing everyone...
...opening her family's Koran. She rarely attended her village mosque, and she told others she regarded the imam, who once made a pass at her, as a lecherous scoundrel. It was not religious extremism that made this villager from Anbar province blow herself up at an Iraqi-police checkpoint last summer, killing three officers and injuring at least 10 civilians...
...have long been enlisted as suicide bombers by Sri Lankan and Palestinian terrorist groups. But they are uniquely effective in Iraq. In each attack, female bombers have been able to get to their intended target despite multiple layers of security. In a culture that forbids male police officers and checkpoint guards to frisk women--yet also frowns on women joining the security forces--many have easy passage to high-value targets like police stations and markets. They can go unchecked where no man would dream of passing...
...morning Hasna blew herself up last July, there were 40 policemen and no women on duty at the checkpoint. At 9:30 a.m., a light-colored Opel drove to within 100 yards of the checkpoint, dropped off a female passenger and turned back toward Ramadi. The woman wore a billowing black gown known as an abaya, and her face was veiled. As she drew close to the blast walls of the checkpoint, she seemed to trip over her abaya and fall. According to eyewitnesses, the woman called out to the nearest policemen, "Come and help me up. I'm hurt...