Jordan Releases Details on Would-Be Bomber

Jordan Releases Details on Would-Be Bomber


Wednesday November 16, 2005 5:31 PM

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By PAUL GARWOOD

Associated Press Writer

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - The would-be suicide bomber in the Jordan hotel
attacks wasn't arrested in Amman, as officials previously said, but
in the northeastern city of Salt, where she sought help from
"relatives," the prime minister said Wednesday.

Prime Minister Adnan Badran said that after the failed detonation,
Sajida Mubarak al-Rishawi fled to a furnished apartment that she and
the other three Iraqis involved in the suicide attacks had rented in
Amman's suburbs.

"She (later) went on to Salt because one of her relatives" lived
there, Badran told reporters.

While in Salt, "they reported about her and she was seized there,"
he added. He could not say whether it was her relatives who reported
her to authorities.