Suicide Mission Aborted by Girl, 13

(Diyala Province, Iraq) A 13-year-old Iraqi girl in the city of Baquba turned herself in to Iraqi Police rather than detonate the explosives she wore in a vest.

She was still wearing the vest, which police had to remove before detaining her.

“Reports are that she approached the IPs (Iraqi police) saying she had the vest on and didn’t want to go through with it,” US military spokesman Lieutenant Commander David Russell said Monday. “If she was forced to put on the vest or if she did it voluntarily, that is still being reviewed.”

According to U.S. military spokesman Major Jon Pendell, the girl's surrender "indicates that the Iraqis are continuing to reject Al-Qaeda and its practices."

It's beyond my ability to understand the evil that would send an innocent, young teen girl on a suicide mission. I'll never be convinced there is honor in killing your own children.