Uses Training And Iraqi Citizen Cooperation To Fight Suicide Bombs
One of the hardest things that the US Army and Coalition forces in Iraq have had to deal with is the suicide bombers. And of that group, the most difficult to deal with is the Female Suicide Bombers.
The US Army has been one of the first coalition services to use their female Servicemembers at key checkpoints and inspection points. Because of the social and moral implications of searching females, up to now many females’ citizens have at times gone without being searched because there was no females available to search them.
This was not something that was seized upon at first, but soon the insurgency realized that females were not being searched as often.
Out of respect for the Muslim belief and the social interaction between men and women, when women approach checkpoints throughout Iraq, if there are no women available on the part of the Iraqi Security Forces, or the coalition, then often they are not searched.
Because of the law in Iraq, and to observe the ethnic customs, women cannot be searched by men; it is considered not only an affront on an individual basis, but a grave violation of Iraqi and Muslim law if a male attempts to search a female.
Recently, in the Karada district the US Army has put women Servicemembers to work at checkpoints, and it has proved very successful.
Several women heavily laden with explosives have been discovered, and no longer are women given an automatic free pass from search and examination.
The program of using female US and Coalition Servicemembers to search Iraqi women citizens has been very successful. Recently 37 women began training at the Kirkuk police academy, to aid in searching women after they graduate as Iraqi Police Officers.
Uses Training And Iraqi Citizen Cooperation To Fight Suicide Bombs
One of the hardest things that the US Army and Coalition forces in Iraq have had to deal with is the suicide bombers. And of that group, the most difficult to deal with is the Female Suicide Bombers.
The US Army has been one of the first coalition services to use their female Servicemembers at key checkpoints and inspection points. Because of the social and moral implications of searching females, up to now many females’ citizens have at times gone without being searched because there was no females available to search them.
This was not something that was seized upon at first, but soon the insurgency realized that females were not being searched as often.
Out of respect for the Muslim belief and the social interaction between men and women, when women approach checkpoints throughout Iraq, if there are no women available on the part of the Iraqi Security Forces, or the coalition, then often they are not searched.
Because of the law in Iraq, and to observe the ethnic customs, women cannot be searched by men; it is considered not only an affront on an individual basis, but a grave violation of Iraqi and Muslim law if a male attempts to search a female.
Recently, in the Karada district the US Army has put women Servicemembers to work at checkpoints, and it has proved very successful.
Several women heavily laden with explosives have been discovered, and no longer are women given an automatic free pass from search and examination.
The program of using female US and Coalition Servicemembers to search Iraqi women citizens has been very successful. Recently 37 women began training at the Kirkuk police academy, to aid in searching women after they graduate as Iraqi Police Officers.
