The second ever suicide bombing in Somalia took place this morning.  The bomber was a woman whom the Somali government claims is connected to Al Qaida.

A veiled woman and two other suicide bombers exploded cars outside the base of Somalia’s weak government Thursday, killing themselves and three accomplices hours after Ethiopia took another step toward war with its Islamic rivals in the country.

Thursday’s suicide bombing was only the second in the country’s history. But the tactic has been widely used by Islamic extremists in Iraq and Afghanistan, both battlegrounds for al Qaeda fighters.

Officials of Somalia’s Ethiopian-backed government blamed the attacks on foreign al Qaeda fighters. Somalia’s president, who narrowly escaped the first suicide car bombing in September, has claimed Islamic extremists have drawn up a hit list of top officials in his weak administration.

The Islamic Courts Union, backed by Iran, Al Qaida and Hezbollah among others, has threatened suicide bombing to the UN recognized government of Somalia after the ICU took over the majority of the nation and the nation’s most important ports.  This is troubling for several reasons, but one of those is that it is suspected Iran has sent Hezbollah operatives to Somalia to train ICU militants in exchange for uranium.

The ICU claims to have divine power and a divine mandate to govern, using only tactics fully in compliance with Islam.  Like a broken record, suicide is not permitted by Islam, yet these Islamist groups continue to take bits and pieces from the Koran to use for their own terrorist tactics.