Saddam honours women suicide bombers

BAGHDAD (AFP) Apr 06, 2003
The two Iraqi women who carried out a suicide car bomb attack which killed three US soldiers are to be decorated posthumously by President Saddam Hussein, Iraqi satellite television said Sunday.

Nucha Mjalli Al-Shammari and Widad Jamil Al-Duleimi died blowing up a checkpoint near Hadithah Dam, 200 kilometres (125 miles) north-west of Baghdad last Thursday night.

Also killed in the blast were a pregnant woman and her driver, according to the US military.

The women bombers will both be awarded the Decoration of Umm al-Maarek or the Mother of All Battles, as Baghdad calls the 1991 Gulf War, and the Wisam al-Rafidain, or Order of the Two Rivers, the report said.

Their families will also receive 50 million dinars (168,750 dollars).

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