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Westerners not targets of bombings: Jordan King
www.chinaview.cn 2005-11-14 02:33:08

    WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Jordanian King Abdullah II said Sunday through the NBC television that Jordanians, not foreigners,were the targets of last week's suicide attacks in Amman, and pledged to bring the attackers to justice.

    "This was nothing to do with the West. This targeted Jordanian citizens: innocent men, women and children," he said, vowing to bring those responsible for the deadly attacks to justice.

    Four suicide bombers carried out three coordinated suicide bomb attacks on the Radisson, Grand Hyatt and Days Inn hotels in Amman on Wednesday, killing at least 57 people and wounding some 100 others.

    The king said that "if we know where they are, even if it's beyond the borders of Jordan, we will give it the best shot possible to bring these people to justice."

    Meanwhile, Jordan identified on Sunday three Iraqi men and an Iraqi woman who carried out the triple attacks.

    Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister Marwan al-Muasher said at a news conference in Amman that Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari, his wifeSajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, and two other Iraqi men, identified as Rawad Jassem Mohammed Abed and Safaa Mohammed Ali, carried out the deadly attacks.

    Al-Muasher said the woman bomber, who failed to blow herself up when accompanying her husband in the attack on the Radisson Hotel,has been arrested.

    The woman was the sister of a senior aide of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. The aide was killed by US-Iraqi forces in Iraq earlier this year, al-Muasher added. Enditem

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