There were various reports yesterday that the homicide bombings in Jordan featured a husband and wife team. Al Jazeera reports:
[Marwan] Moasher [of the Jordanian Government] identified the woman as Sajida Mubarak al-Rishai and said she was the sister of a key aide to al-Qaida's Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a fugitive Jordanian who is Iraq's most wanted man.
He said she failed to blow up her explosives charge in the hotel ballroom where a wedding reception was in full swing.
"Her husband asked her to leave the wedding party. Once she did he detonated himself successfully," Moasher added.
He showed pictures of the explosives belt worn by the woman, which he said show "the metal balls that were also attached to the belt so that they can inflict the largest number of casualties".
He said she was the sister of al-Zarqawi's "amir" in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar who was killed in Falluja.
Even Debka is reporting essentially the same thing:
A woman who failed to blow herself up in Wednesday's triple suicide bombing in Amman is now in custody, Jordan's King Abdullah said on Sunday.
"I just heard from our intelligence services that there is a fourth bomber, a woman, who failed to blow herself up and she's in custody," he told a group of media editors attending a forum in Amman.
Deputy Prime Minister Marwan al-Muasher said the woman, who failed to blow herself up, was the wife of one of the attackers and the sister of a lieutenant of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Muasher named the three dead men as 23-year-olds Safar Mohammed Ali and Rawad Jasim Mohammed Abid and Ali Hussein al-Shimeri, who was born in 1970 and so probably aged 25. Shimeri's wife is the same age, he said, naming her as Sajida al-Rishawi, the sister of Samir Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi. Rishawi, he said, was one of Zarqawi's lieutenants and was killed at Falluja, in western Iraq.
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