AMMAN, Sept 21: A Jordanian military court on Thursday sentenced to death a failed female suicide bomber for triple hotel attacks in Amman last year that killed 60 people and shook one of the most stable nations in the Middle East.
“Sajida Mubarak al-Rishawi, the court has decided to sentence you to death along with the accused fugitives for conspiracy to carry out terror acts using explosives that led to the death of individuals,” said the presiding judge.
Rishawi, an Iraqi, had been paraded on state television confessing to her role in the Nov 2005 attacks in which her husband blew himself up during a wedding party in an Amman hotel.
She was the only one of the accused to appear in court since the high-profile trial opened in April. Among those on the original charge sheet were three suicide bombers and top Al-Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.—AFP
