Arrests made in probe of Belgian suicide bomber in Iraq News
Arrests made in probe of Belgian suicide bomber in Iraq

[JURIST Europe] Authorities in France and Belgium [government websites] have arrested fifteen suspects connected with a suicide bombing attack in Iraq on November 9 carried out by a woman who has been confirmed as a Belgian national married to an Islamic radical. The suicide attack is thought to be the first by a European female. Fourteen of the suspects were arrested in Brussels [Reuters report] while the fifteenth was discovered in Paris. The fifteen are purported to be part of a network that has been under investigation for four months, but authorities lost track of the suicide bomber until her arrival in Iraq. The London Telegraph has more.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

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