Why young women opt to train as suicide bombers

Suspected Al shaabab brides from left Umur Kheir, Mariam Said and Khadijah Abubakar at the Mombasa Court on Monday,030th March,2015. Kheir, a Tanzanian and the two Kenyans from Malindi were arrested by Kenyan Securities at Elwak in Mandera Border suspected to be going to join Al Shaabab group in Somalia and be used as suicide bombers. PHOTO BY MAARUFU MOHAMED/STANDARD

On September 11, far away from the memory of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US, another set of would be killers hoped to make history of their own.

A few minutes after midday, three women, two of them sisters, left a tiny flat in Mombasa’s Kibokoni estate with no intention of ever going back alive.