*AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) -- The televised confession of an Iraqi woman -- accused of planning to be the fourth suicide bomber in last week's deadly attacks in Amman -- has shocked Jordanians, with some expressing joy over her capture and others venting anger over her plans.
Many others were also on Monday asking if Saijida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi really was involved in the bomb plot that killed 57 people in Wednesday's attacks on the Radisson SAS, Grand Hyatt and Days Inn hotels.
Al-Rishawi achieved global notoriety on Sunday after she was detained and later filmed on Jordanian television describing how the attacks were planned. (Watch: Jordanians get to see and hear alleged bomber -- 2:29)
"My husband detonated his bomb, and I tried to detonate mine but failed," she said on Jordanian television. "People fled running, and I left running with them."
She stood up to display a belt that she and investigators said she had planned to use in the attacks.
Wearing a white head scarf and black dress, she described with apparent calm her role in a plot to kill herself and others. (Watch the woman describe the plans for the attack -- 1:03)
"I sat there watching and couldn't understand how she could be speaking so coldly," Adel Fathi, 29, told The Associated Press. Three of his relatives were killed in the Radisson wedding party reception that was bombed by al-Rishawi's husband.
"What are these people made of?" added Fathi, who closed his women's accessories shop early and joined millions of others who watched the confession. |
