Iraqi Woman Confesses on Jordan TV
By SHAFIKA MATTAR, Associated Press
AMMAN, Jordan - An Iraqi woman confessed on state television Sunday to trying to detonate explosives strapped around her waist while she was in one of three Amman hotels bombed by al-Qaida in
Iraq.
"My husband wore an (explosives-packed) belt and I wore another. He told me how to use it," said Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, 35, who appeared on television wearing a white head scarf, black gown and the disabled bomb belt tied around her waist.
Jordanian security forces on Sunday arrested the woman, whose husband is suspected of blowing up the Radisson SAS hotel, after being tipped off by an al-Qaida claim that a husband-and-wife team participated in attacks at three hotels that killed 57 other people.
AMMAN, Jordan - An Iraqi woman confessed on state television Sunday to trying to detonate explosives strapped around her waist while she was in one of three Amman hotels bombed by al-Qaida in
Iraq.
"My husband wore an (explosives-packed) belt and I wore another. He told me how to use it," said Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, 35, who appeared on television wearing a white head scarf, black gown and the disabled bomb belt tied around her waist.
Jordanian security forces on Sunday arrested the woman, whose husband is suspected of blowing up the Radisson SAS hotel, after being tipped off by an al-Qaida claim that a husband-and-wife team participated in attacks at three hotels that killed 57 other people.
posted by Marko at 11/13/2005 10:30:00 AM
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