Jordan uncovers executors of Amman's explosions
The Jordanian authorities announced it uncovered the cell behind the explosion which targeted three hotels in Amman on Wednesday evening which claimed the lives of 57 persons and scores of injured.
Jordan's deputy prime minister Marwan aMuaasher said that the cell includes three Iraqis. They are Jasem Muhammad ( 23 year old); Safa Muhammad ( 23 year old) and Ali Hussein al-Shummari and his wife Sajedah Atrous al-Reisjawi.
In a press conference yesterday in Amman, Muaasher added that investigations revealed that the four Iraqi entered Amman via al-Karamah crossing on the Iraqi- Jordanian borders on the fifth of November, and then they rented an apartment in Talla Ali area in the capital Amman for one month.
Muaasher explained that intelligence investigations revealed that the four left the apartment on November 9 and did not return to it. They rented a car and went to Radisson Sass hotel and Sajedah was wearing cloths showing that she is going to a party. This showed their determination to kill as much as possible of men."
The Jordanian minister added that Sajedah entered the wedding party hall and tried to detonate herself but the bomb did not go off, and then her husband asked to leave the hall and he detonated himself.
Muaasher said that the Jordanian security forces could arrest Sajedah who entered Jordan using a false Iraqi passport and that she confessed to the plan which was carried out.
The Jordanian minister indicated that Sajedah is the sister of Tamer al-Reishawi, the leader of al-Qaida organization in al-Anbar, who was considered the right hand for the leader of al-Qaida organization in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, noting that al-Reishawi was killed in Iraq, earlier.
Muaasher said that the executors of the attacks aimed to kill as many people as possible, noting that investigations showed that no Jordanians were involved in these explosions. But he stressed that the authorities are still investigating Jordanians who affiliate to al-Qaida organization in Iraq to know if they have links to these explosions.
The Jordanian king Abdullah II said in press statements that the executors of the explosions came to Jordan from Iraq or Syria.
Al-Qaida organization in Iraq claimed, in a statement on the Internet, responsibility for the explosions which it said targeted hotels in Amman used as shelters for the American and Israeli intelligence and that "secret planning are run from them regarding the so-called war against terrorism." In a later statement, the organization acknowledged that three Iraqis and the wife of one of them, known as Um Omera, were the executors of these explosions.