According to former Ambassador Marc Ginsburg, as interviewed by Greta van Susteren moments ago, al-Zarqawi wants to abuse, execute these soldiers, and shock the Americans into pressuring the Administration to pull out NOW.
Another "Islamic" concern is the traditional disdain Muslim men feel for women in general, and the hatred over the U.S. employing WOMEN (inferiors) as combat soldiers against his "freedom fighters" and other Islamists.
He's also trying to play into Arab accusations that U.S. guards raped and abused Iraqi women at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere as a "convenient excuse".
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