Jordanian
Nov 14 2005, Bhawana Negi

An Iraqi woman, a suicide bomber, was taken into custody on last Sunday on the charges of planning attacks at Amman hotels has confessed her crime.

Saijida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, 35, told the Jordan media that she tried to explode the bomb but...

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