U.S. Forces In Iraq Capture Al Qaeda Trainer Of Female Bombers

Great News! And at the same time, not so great news. First off, U.S. forces today in Iraq captured the al Qaeda leader who was training the female suicide bombers which of course is the great news. The bad news part of it is that perhaps we didn't realize just how big this training operation was and how many women have gone through or would have gone through the training.
Get this - this al Qaeda trainer was even training his own wife! From the article:

"The ringleader was a man trying to recruit women to carry out SVEST (suicide vest) bombings. The cell leader used his wife and another woman, to act as carriers of his next SVEST attack," the military said.

Probably the best part of this apprehension was the fact that this sick bastard was doing the recruiting as well and that is probably the best part to get off of the streets.

Here's the brief report from Breitbart.

US: Iraqi Women Bomber Trainer Caught

BAGHDAD (AP) - The U.S. military announced the capture Saturday of an insurgent leader who was recruiting and training women, including his wife, to wrap themselves in explosives and blow themselves up—the latest sign that al-Qaida in Iraq plans to keep using women to carry out suicide attacks.
In southern Iraq, a British airman was killed in a rocket attack on a base near Basra late Friday, said Capt. Finn Aldrich, a British military spokesman.
The U.S. military said it had killed six insurgents and detained 13 suspects Friday and Saturday during operations against al-Qaida in Iraq in central and northern Iraq.
In another development, the military said Saturday it had captured a sniper instructor in Baghdad who had been trained by Iranians. Iran has in the past denied such claims.
On the eve of a visit here by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country's state news agency reported that he rejected claims that Iran is fueling violence in Iraq.
In the case of the suicide vests, the military said the man was arrested Thursday in an operation near the town of Kan Bani Sad, north of Baghdad in Diyala province—still an al-Qaida hotbed.
"The ringleader was a man trying to recruit women to carry out SVEST (suicide vest) bombings. The cell leader used his wife and another woman, to act as carriers of his next SVEST attack," the military said.
Women have recently been used more frequently by al-Qaida in Iraq as bombers, with six attacks or attempted attacks this year alone, according to U.S. military statistics. That's out of a total of 19 such attacks since the U.S.-led invasion began in 2003, Rear Adm. Gregory Smith said in a recent briefing.
The latest included two women with a history of psychiatric treatment who killed about 100 people at pet markets in Baghdad on Feb. 1.
It remains unclear if al-Qaida has begun using women because it has been unable to recruit new insurgents or because they are more difficult to detect.
The Iranian-trained sniper instructor was arrested along with three other men, and the military said he was also an expert in the use of bombs known as explosively formed penetrators that are designed to defeat the armor used in American military vehicles and tanks. Most of those bombs are designed and often built in neighboring Iran.