Female suicide bomber kills 3, wounds 12 in green zone

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: A female suicide bomber’s attack left three people killed and 12 others wounded at the entrance of central Baghdad’s heavily-fortified green zone on Monday morning, a senior security official said. “A mentally-retarded female suicide bomber was detonated by means of remote control near a checkpoint at the entrance of the green zone in central Baghdad’s al-Karada district,” Maj. General Qassem Atta, the official spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC), told IraqiNews.com. “The attack left three killed and 12 others injured,” Atta said. AmR (P) 1