Muriel Degauque, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Belgian Islamist
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Place of Birth: Monceau-sur-Sambre, Wallonia, Belgium
About Muriel Degauque
- Muriel Degauque (July 19, 1967 – November 9, 2005) was a Belgian woman from Charleroi and a convert to Islam.La Derniere Heure, a Belgian newspaper, claimed on December 1, 2005 that she was a suicide bomber in Iraq.
- According to Belgian authorities, a Belgian woman committed a suicide car bomb attack on November 9, 2005 against a U.S.
- military convoy south of Baghdad.
- The Belgian was the only person killed, but one American soldier was injured. Belgian authorities subsequently questioned her family and determined Degauque as the bomber.
- A bakery worker, she married a Muslim man and quickly became radical in her religious views.
- The couple moved into Iraq from the Syrian border, presumably to join the Iraqi insurgency.
- Degauque's husband failed to detonate his explosive belt and was killed in a separate incident by US troops.
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