Jordan interrogates suspects in Amman's explosions
Jordan, Politics, 11/12/2005

A security source said that some 200 persons were detained since the occurrence of the attacks which targeted the hotels of Amman's Radisson Sass and Days Inn in a vast campaign targeted Islamists.

Meantime, the police inspected the poor quarters in the capital Amman inhabited by Iraqi workers, adding some of the detained persons were released.

For his part, the Jordanian deputy prime minister Marwan al-Muaasher said that the authorities detained 12 persons suspected to be involved in these explosions while the American embassy in Amman announced that three Americans were killed and other 4 injured.

Muaasher did not disclose the nationalities of the suspects, but the minister of the Interior Aouni Yarfas indicated earlier that among the interrogated persons are Iraqis. Muaasher also added that medical judiciary experts are making analysis for the DNA of three men expected to be the suicide bombers.

The sources indicated that the investigations concentrate on the testimony of two of the employees of the three hotels, who talked with the executors of the explosions. One of them was speaking with an Iraqi dialectic and the second of a Gulf dialect and believed to be also an Iraqi.

News reports quoted a Jordanian medical source as confirming finding the head and remains of a torn body among the killing. A matter which confirm the assumption of having a woman among the executors of the explosions.

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