news bulletin – answers

Teen girl aborts Iraq suicide attack

questions

1. What did the girl not want? end her life as a suicide bomber
2. How was the video footage filmed? on a hand-held video camera
3. What was she supposed to do? blow herself up
4. Where? outside an Iraqi police check point
5. What did she tell the police? she didn’t want to go through with it
6. How did the police remove the vest? painstakingly
7. How old did she claim to be? 17
8. Who approached her? a woman she didn’t know
9. Did she volunteer? it is not yet clear
10. What has become common in the last year? suicide attacks by women
11. Why are such bombers favoured? because the police are reluctant to search women
12. According to the US military, what does the girl’s decision indicate? a changing attitude among Iraqis to Al Quaeda and its methods