Germans thwart potential suicide attacker

-- A German woman who converted to Islam has been placed under surveillance after police thwarted an attempt by her to travel to Iraq as a suicide bomber, media reports said.

The 40-year-old, identified only as Sonja B., is one of three German women said to have used the internet to disclose their intention to carry out missions against US soldiers.

Police reportedly prevented them leaving Germany in April.

Sonja B., who lives in Berlin, was admitted to a psychiatric clinic after police were unable to obtain an arrest warrant because of lack of evidence against her, the reports said.

She was released after two weeks, but authorities took her two-year-old son Abdullah into care, fearing that she might use the child to carry out her plan. --