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Would-be bomber's brothers killed in Iraq
(AP)
Updated: 2005-11-15 22:57
Al-Rishawi revealed no motive in a televised confession Sunday for trying to
bomb the Radisson SAS hotel, saying only that she was brought to Jordan from
Iraq by her husband, who fitted her with an explosives belt and told her it
would be used in a suicide bombing attack.
Jordanian intelligence officials say their interrogation of al-Rishawi, which
could last for about a month before she is eventually charged, has been going
slowly, with few details emerging of her motivation behind taking part in the
plot.
She could face the death penalty if convicted of conspiring to carry out a
terrorist attack that killed people and possessing explosives with the aim of
using them illegally, according to a senior security official close to the
interrogation.
Al-Rishawi said in her confession that she wanted to join
her husband in attacking the Radisson, but her bomb — packed with 22 pounds of
powerful RDX explosives and ball-bearings — malfunctioned.
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