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| Jordan's King Abdullah looks on during the
opening ceremony of the Media Agencies in Amman November 13, 2005. A woman
who failed to blow herself up in Wednesday's triple suicide bombing in
Amman is now in custody, King Abdullah said on Sunday.
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| Jordan's deputy premier, Marwan Muasher,
displays Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005, pictures showing explosive devices which
were worn by a woman, Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, 35, who
accompanied a suicide bomber to one of the targeted Amman hotels and
failed to detonate them last Wednesday.
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AMMAN, Nov. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Jordanian King Abdullah said
on Sunday that a woman who failed to blow herself up in the triple suicide
bombings in Amman on Wednesday has been arrested by the police.
"I have just learned that a fourth suicide bomber, a
woman, who accompanied her husband to carry out the attack on the Radisson
Hotel, has been in custody after failing to blow herself up," Abdullah told a
group of reporters in the Jordanian capital Amman.
Three Iraqi men and one Iraqi woman, wife of one of
the male bombers, carried out three coordinated suicide bomb attacks on the
Radisson, Grand Hyatt and Days Inn hotels in Amman on Wednesday. At least 57
people were killed and around 100 others wounded inthe deadly attacks.
Al-Qaida terror group in Iraq, led by Jordanian
militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had claimed responsibility for the blasts and
said in an Internet statement that an Iraqi couple along with two other men,
also Iraqis, had carried out the bombings. In the wake of the bloodshed,
Abdullah vowed to hunt down the attackers and those behind the blasts. Scores of
suspects have been rounded up by Jordanian police across the country and
investigations are underway. Enditem |