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Jordan boomerette in TV confession
 An Iraqi woman, apparently wearing a disarmed bomb-belt, has appeared on Jodanian television, confessing to being the failed fourth bomber in last weekâs Amman hotel attacks.
| "Yeah, I did! I dunnit an' I'm glad!" |
Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi told how she and her husband had carried out the bombing at the Radisson SAS hotel, one of three hotels targeted on Wednesday night in attacks that left 57 people dead. âMy husband wore a belt and put one on me. He taught me how to use it,â al-Rishawi said.
| "He just didn't teach me very well..." |
Film of her wearing what was reportedly the disabled bomb-belt strapped around her waist were played over parts of her confession. "We went into the hotel. He [my husband] took a corner and I took another. There was a wedding in the hotel. There were women and children," she said.
| "I like killing women and children. It makes me feel very pious." |
âMy husband detonated [his bomb] and I tried to explode my belt, but it wouldn't. People fled running and I left running with them.â
| "I ain't dead!... I ain't dead!... How do you get this thing off?" |
Al-Rishawiâs arrest was announced earlier on Sunday by Jordanian authorities. Speaking at a press conference in Amman, Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Moasher said she was the sister of a key aide to al-Qaida's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a fugitive Jordanian who is Iraq's most wanted man. He said she failed to blow up her explosives charge in the hotel ballroom where a wedding reception was in full swing. "Her husband asked her to leave the wedding party. Once she did he detonated himself successfully," Moasher added.
| That doesn't really mesh with the part about her old man booming and hers not going off. I'd actually consider this version to be the more likely. Glancing at her picture, Sajida's a homely woman, and a man on his way to meet 72 flat-chested 12-year-olds likely doesn't want to be burdened with a face likely to stop his celestial watch. |
He showed pictures of the explosives belt worn by the woman, which he said show "the metal balls that were also attached to the belt so that they can inflict the largest number of casualties". Moasher said the woman's confession was shown on state TV "to give the Jordanian public some relief, to at least know some details of the operation." He told CNN that she would be given a fair trial in a Jordanian court, but declined to give any further comments on the investigation saying it was ongoing.
| Blindfold and cigarette? Or a thorough neck-lengthening? |
Posted by: Fred 2005-11-14 |
