Al Qaeda links: Iraq man hangs ‘would-be’ suicide bomber daughter

An Iraqi man hanged his teenage daughter after discovering she had reportedly joined Qaeda to launch a suicide bombing

BAGHDAD: An Iraqi man hanged his teenage daughter after discovering she had reportedly joined al Qaeda to launch a suicide bombing, police said on Saturday.

“Al-Najem Ambagui hanged her 40 days ago because she had joined al Qaeda,” said a police officer in Baquba.The girl was buried in a canal near his home in Mandali, he said. “Prisoners of al Qaeda in Baghdad had confessed to investigators that they recruited her for a suicide operation.”

Police had gone to arrest her on Tuesday, but instead detained her father after being unable to find the daughter. “The father confessed to his crime,” the officer said.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 26^th, 2010.