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Iraqi Woman Confesses on Jordanian TV to Bombings

HeadlineNov 14, 2005

In Jordan, police have arrested a 35-year-old Iraqi woman in connection with last week’s attacks on three western hotels that killed 57 people. On Sunday Jordanian TV aired a confession from a woman identified as Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi. She is the wife of one of the other three Iraqi suicide bombers. During her confession she explained her role in the bombings. In the videotaped confession, she is wearing the explosives belt that was meant to be used in the attack. According to news reports the woman’s late brother had been the Anbar province leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq.

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