Green Zone Closed After Suicide Attack

Security forces sealed off central Baghdad’s heavily-fortified green zone in the aftermath of Monday’s morning attack by a female suicide bomber that killed three people and wounded 12 others.

According to the Aswat al-Iraq correspondent, the security forces also denied access to employees and journalists.

A woman working at the U.S. embassy told Aswat al-Iraq that security forces protecting the green zone, where she works, closed it before employees and asked them to “go home”.

The measures coincide with the parliament’s 33rd session today to vote over draft laws including the one on the Republic of Iraq’s accession to the agreement to set up the proposed Islamic Committee of the International Crescent.

Earlier in the day, Maj. General Qassem Atta, the official spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC), told Aswat al-Iraq that 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, leaving three persons killed and 12 others injured.