Jordan Times
Monday, November 14, 2005
Full text of failed
woman attacker's confession
AMMAN (AP) — Following is the full text of the confession of the would-be Iraqi
woman bomber broadcast Sunday on JTV:
"Sajida Mubarak Atrous [Al Rishawi] , born in 1970, an Iraqi national, living in
Ramadi.
On November 5, I accompanied my husband to Jordan with a forged Iraqi passport,
under the name of Ali Hussein Ali and Sajida Abdel Qader Latif.
We waited and a white car arrived with a driver and a passenger. We rode with
them and entered Jordan [from Iraq]. My husband arranged our trip from there, I
don't know.
In Jordan, we rented an apartment. He had two explosive belts. He put one on me
and wore the other. He taught me how to use it, how to pull the [primer cord]
and operate it.
He said it was to carry attacks on hotels in Jordan. We rented a car and entered
the hotel on November 9. My husband and I went inside the hotel, he went to one
corner and I went to another.
There was a wedding at the hotel with children, women and men inside.
My husband detonated [his bomb], I tried to explode [my belt] but it wouldn't.
I left, people fled running and I left running with them.”