Iraqi's Brush With Death

Would-be suicide bomber captured in Baqouba

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  • FOX News' Anita McNaught interviews Rania, a teenage girl who was captured by police in Baqouba, Iraq, on Aug. 26, 2008, strapped with 33 pounds of explosives outside a school.
  • Rania, a teenage girl who was captured by police in Baqouba, Iraq, on Aug. 26, 2008, strapped with 33 pounds of explosives outside a school.
  • Rania speaks with Diyala police in Baqouba, Iraq.
  • Rania, a teenage girl who was captured by police in Baqouba, Iraq, on Aug. 26, 2008, strapped with 33 pounds of explosives outside a school.
  • Rania, a teenage girl who was captured by police in Baqouba, Iraq, on Aug. 26, 2008, strapped with 33 pounds of explosives outside a school.
  • Rania speaks with Iraqi police officials following her Aug. 26, 2008, arrest outside a school in Baqouba, Iraq. She was found wearing 33 pounds of explosives.
  • A video clip of Rania's arrest on Aug. 26, 2008, outside a school in Baquoba, Iraq.
  • A video clip of Rania's arrest on Aug. 26, 2008, outside a school in Baquoba, Iraq.
  • Rania speaks with Iraqi police officials following her Aug. 26, 2008, arrest outside a school in Baqouba, Iraq. She was found wearing 33 pounds of explosives.
  • Rania, a teenage girl who was captured by police in Baqouba, Iraq, on Aug. 26, 2008, strapped with 33 pounds of explosives outside a school.
  • Rania speaks with Iraqi police officials following her Aug. 26, 2008, arrest outside a school in Baqouba, Iraq. She was found wearing 33 pounds of explosives.
  • Rania speaks with the acting chief of police of Diyala in Baqouba, Iraq.
  • Rania, a teenage girl who was captured by police in Baqouba, Iraq, on Aug. 26, 2008, strapped with 33 pounds of explosives outside a school.
  • FOX News' Anita McNaught interviews Rania, a teenage girl who was captured by police in Baqouba, Iraq, on Aug. 26, 2008, strapped with 33 pounds of explosives outside a school.
  • FOX reporter Anita McNaught listens to a young Iraqi girl identified only as Rania describing her panic on finding herself on an apparent homicide bombing mission Sunday. Police defused her 33-pound explosive vest before it detonated.
  • Teenage Iraqi girl Rania explains her brush at the office of the acting chief of police at Diyala, in Baquba City, Diyala Province.
  • Rania, thought to be no more than 15 years old, told police her husband personally fitted her with the explosive vest. Police said she appeared to be drugged at the scene and gave no indication she knew she was wearing a bomb.
  • Rania's father was a homicide bomber and her mother and sister were arrested on suspicion of terrorist activity, according to Iraqi police.
  • FOX reporter Anita McNaught speaks one on one with Rania. McNaught has reported from Kosovo, Gaza and Iraq, and was the only Western news reporter to speak with the girl at the police station following her preliminary interrogation.

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