Tears streaming down her face, she is confronted by police - a teenage girl apparently planning to blow herself up in front of an Iraqi school. The officers handcuffed her to a metal balustrade before moving in with extreme caution to uncover a vest full of explosives hidden under her colorful robe. The dramatic scenes were captured on a video shot by the police.

The girl - thought to be around 15 years old - later said that she was given the bomb and told to wait outside the school for further instructions. In the footage, she denies trying to stage a suicide attack, and appears dazed, even drugged. She gave her first name as Rania and said she was born in 1993. Her exchange with the police offered a rare glimpse at a teenager allegedly recruited by insurgents.

Police claimed that the girl's father was a suicide bomber, and her mother and one of her sisters were later arrested. The police footage begins with Rania standing on the street. Her arms are already behind her back, where they have apparently been tied by an officer in an attempt to restrain her. A policeman is shown opening her robe, and later frames show her wearing what appears to be a suicide vest, containing about 33lb of explosives.

The officer said the girl led the police back to where she was given the explosives and that they found a second bomb belt in an empty apartment in the Baqouba area. The police footage of the girl's arrest begins with her standing on a Baqouba street, next to a metal structure. Her arms are behind her back, apparently tied to the structure, as police surround her.

Later, a policeman is shown opening her robe, and subsequent frames show her wearing what appears to be the suicide vest. Police later said the vest contained about 33 pounds of explosives. She insists she doesn't know the women who gave her the vest. 'I swear to Allah that I do not know them. They were strangers,' she is heard saying, though she later says that 'one of the women's names was maybe Fadhila and the other was called Widad.' When pressed to say whether she knew the woman who put the vest on her, she replied: 'Yes.'

Police asked if she intended to blow herself up. 'No, no, they put it on me and told me to take it off at home,' she said. 'They did not tell me to explode myself.' A policeman standing next to her could be heard saying that when she was picked up, she was initially unable to talk because she had been given drugs.

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