Sunday, November 13, 2005

Women.

AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) -- An Iraqi woman detained Sunday and accused of planning to be the fourth suicide bomber in last week's deadly attacks at Amman hotels confessed her participation in a televised video.

"My husband detonated his bomb, and I tried to detonate mine but failed," Saijida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi said on Jordanian television.

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[A posting on a web site used by Al Qaeda] identified the participants as "the leader Abu Hobeib, Abu Moadh and Abu Omeir, and the fourth is our good sister Om Omeir, who chose to accompany her husband on his road to martyrdom."

Al-Rishawi said during her televised confession, "My husband is the one who organized everything."

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"We rented an apartment," she said, adding that her husband taught her how to use her explosives belt.

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Muasher said information gathered by Jordanian authorities suggests that al-Rishawi's husband "asked her to step out of the room" when her explosives did not detonate.

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