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Police Make Arrest in Jordan Bombings | ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive 2005 -2017
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AMMAN, Jordan, AP -Jordanian police have arrested a woman who accompanied a suicide bomber to one of the targeted Amman hotels and failed to detonate her own explosive device, King Abdullah II said Sunday.

&#34Police arrested the wife of the Radisson SAS suicide bomber who failed to blow herself up&#34 on Wednesday, Abdullah told a gathering of international media organizations.

The terror group Al-Qaida in Iraq has claimed four Iraqis — including a husband and his wife — carried out the bombings at the Radisson, Grand Hyatt and Days Inn hotels that killed 57 people, Jordan”s deadliest ever terror attacks. The group took responsibility for the attacks.