Quds Press, the London-based Arab news agency, reports that Al Qaeda in Iraq has created a 'brigade' of all-female suicide bombers. According to pamphlets found in Sunni mosques in Baghdad, the unit consists of mothers, wives and daughters of local martyrs. The group calls themselves Al Khansa, after a 7th Century poetess and, according to the pamphlets, is planning its first suicide attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Adnkronos International has the details. 

The militant group announced the unit's creation through pamphlets distributed in several Sunni Muslim mosques and neighbourhoods of Baghdad, Quds Press reported.

"Verily a group of faithful women, consisting of mothers, wives and daughters of martyrs who were members of the Islamic State of Iraq, have formed the suicide bomber brigade al-Khansa" the message contained in the pamphlets said.

The brigade - whose name derives from a 7th Century AD Arab poetess and collaborator of the Prophet Mohammed - will launch its first suicide attack during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the pamphlets said.

The pamphlet ends with an appeal for other women to join the brigade and to sacrifice themselves as suicide bombers. 

Female jihadists pose a stark threat to aviation security, as I have written here.  

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