Women arrested over al-Qaeda links

Two women, the wives of two of the men arrested for planning the attack at Gibraltar. Here's a question... If al-Qaeda is going to violate the fundamentals of Islam to such a degree as to use women as couriers in setting up their terrorist attacks, how can they claim to be any purer in their Islam than Saudi Arabia?

Gibraltar is an interesting choice of targets, by the way. Al-Qaeda has a weakness for the symbolic target, and few are as loaded as Gibraltar. Its name is transparently Arabic, and it's the link between Muslim Morocco and Christian Spain. Osama, you may remember, went on about the "Tragedy of Andalus" in one of his tapes, and one of his goals is to restore Islamic control in all places once part of Islam. That would include Spain, most of it anyway. An attack on Gibraltar would be seen as the first blow in a counter-Reconquista.