Thread: Iraqi Police Disarm Teen Before She Detonates Vest Bomb

Moment of Terror: Iraqi Police Disarm Teen Before She Detonates Vest Bomb

Tuesday, August 26, 2008



AP

Aug. 26: In this photo released by the Iraqi police, a girl suspected of being a suicide bomber is seen handcuffed to railings in a street in Baqouba.

Iraqi police released dramatic photos Monday afternoon of a teenage girl who apparently was ready to blow herself up in front of a school in Baquoba.

The girl, who appeared to be about 15 and said her name was Rania, was crying and appeared drugged when police approached her, not knowing what was under her colorful robes.

She told police that she was wearing a vest — packed with 33 pounds of explosives — and that two women — perhaps relatives — told her to wait outside the school. She said her husband of five months had personally fitted her for the vest.

Iraqi police said the girl's father also was a homicide bomber, and that her mother and a sister were later arrested.

U.S. sources, however, told the Daily Mail that the girl turned herself in after being hooked up to the explosives against her will.

Police video shows Rania with her arms behind her back, the result of police trying to restrain her.

A policeman is shown opening her robe, and later, her wearing what appears to be a vest later found to be stuffed with plastic explosives

Police told the Daily Mail that the girl took them back to the apartment where she was given the vest, and found another bomb device.

Rania told police conflicting stories, first swearing she did not know who gave her the vest, then confessing to knowing the women.

When pressed to say whether she knew the woman who put the vest on her, she replied: 'Yes.'

A policeman standing next to her could be heard saying that when she was picked up, she was unable to talk and appeared to have been given drugs.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,410921,00.html

Great life. Married at 14 or 15, her new husband buys her a custom-fitted vest that her mother and sister stuff with plastic explosives. Sounds like a solid, upstanding family to me.