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Humam al-Balawi

Newsweek Turns a Widow into a Terrorist Mastermind


Posted by sarayasin on 25 Jan 2010 / 0 Comments
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Christopher Dickey’s analysis of an interview with Defne Bayrak (pictured below), the wife of the Jordanian suicide bomber Humam Al-Balawi in Afghanistan, asks the wrong questions. Instead of pondering the reason why a woman of Bayrak’s intelligence would condone suicide bombing, he creates an image of women involved in al-Qaeda that made me feel like […]

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