Different reaction in the Jordanian street to al-Reishawi confessions
Jordan-Iraq, Politics, 11/15/2005

The Jordanian TV broadcast of what it called confessions on one woman said to be an Iraqi member of a group of suicide bombers who carried out Amman's explosions and failed to detonate herself, raised different reactions in the Jordanian street.

While certain sides welcomed the detention of that woman, which the Jordanian authorities said the woman is Sajedah Atrous al-Reishawi, while others doubted whether this woman is actually involved in the explosions, which targeted three hotels in the capital Amman on Wednesday and resulted in killing 57 persons and injuring other 100.

On Jordanian security official asked to be anonymous justified the calmness of al-Reishawi while she gave her confession by saying that she was in shock from the explosions and then the detention at the hands of the Jordanian authorities.

On Sunday evening, the Jordanian TV showed al-Reishawi statements, and said she was from a cell for the al-Qaida organization in Iraq which carried out the explosions in Amman.

Al-Reishawi said in the confessions attributed to her that she entered Jordan on November 5 with the company of her husband in a private car and a false Iraqi passport and then they rented a flat in Amman. On November 9th her husband put on her an explosive belt and trained her how to use it, and he also wore another one, and they then headed to Radisson Sass hotel where a wedding was held in one of its halls.

The woman explained in her confessions that she stood in one corner of the hotel and her husband in the other and then tried to detonate herself but failed, while her husband was able to detonate the explosive belt he was wearing.

The BBC had noted that her brother was a member of al-Qaida who was killed in the US - led attack on Falujja city in Iraq.

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