An Iraqi woman on Sunday confessed to trying to carry out a suicide bombing attack inside a hotel in Jordan last week. The woman, identified as Sajeda Atrous al-Rishawi, 35, detailed the failed attempt on state-run television.
She said her husband taught her how to use the explosive belt, which she strapped around her waist. "My husband wore an (explosive) belt and put one on me. He taught me how to use it," al-Rishawi said.
The woman - the sister of al Qaeda leader in Iraq's right-hand man who was killed by U.S. forces in Iraq - described the moment when her husband detonated his own bomb at the Radisson hotel in Amman. "My husband detonated (his bomb) and I tried to explode my belt but it wouldn't," she said, adding "people fled running and I left running with them."
Al-Rishawi, who is from a town in west of Baghdad, said she entered Jordan from Iraq with her husband and two other men. "I was traveling with my husband who carried a forged passport under the name of Ali Hussein Ali and mine was Sajida Abdel Qader Latif," she said.
"We waited and a white car arrived with a driver and a passenger. We rode with them and entered Jordan," she disclosed. Once in Amman, she said the four rented an apartment and her husband showed her how to use the bomb.
"He said it was for the attack on hotels in Jordan. We rented a car and entered the hotel on Nov. 9. My husband and I went inside and he went to one corner and I went to another," she said. "There was a wedding at the hotel with children, women and men inside."
