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Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi (Arabic: ساجدة الريشاوي born 1965) is a failed suicide bomber. She has been convicted in the November 9, 2005 Amman bombings in Jordan but survived when her explosive belt failed to detonate. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the triple bombings that hit three hotels near simultaneously and said the attack happened because the hotels were frequented by Israelis and Western tourists.[1]

She and her husband Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari are thought to be Iraqi citizens and had Iraq accents. According to her confession they traveled into Jordan about 5 days before the bombings on forged passports. She along with her husband entered the the Amman Radisson Hotel ballroom during a wedding. When she had trouble detonating her suicide belt her husband pushed her out of the room[citation needed] before detonating a bomb that killed 38 people.

Court proceedings

Al-Rishawi was later captured by Jordanian authorities and confessed on national television. She was shown making a videotaped confession with an apparent suicide bomb device around her and a detonator in hand showing that the device failed to explode, but later retracted her confession.[2]

She was sentenced to death by hanging by a Jordanian military court on 21 September 2006.[2] She appealed against this conviction but her appeal was dismissed in January 2007.[3][4] As of 4 October 2010, she was in the process of appeal of her sentence.[5]

ISIL

Al-Rishawi is reportedly the sister of a former close aide of deceased al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.[6] Some reports name her brother as Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi who was killed by US forces on Iraq.[7] Al-Qaida in Iraq is now known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

On 24 January 2015, ISIL offered to trade Japanese hostage Kenji Goto for Sajida al-Rishawi.[8] Following the beheading of Goto, a prisoner swap between Jordan pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh (Also a prisoner of ISIL) and al-Rishawi was brought up. However, after Muath al-Kaseasbeh's execution, Jordan vowed to execute al-Rishawi, among other ISIL prisoners, in retaliation. [9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Three Hotels in Amman Attacked by Suicide Bombers". Terrorism.com. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  2. ^ a b Failed Amman hotel bomber to hang BBC News, 21 September 2006
  3. ^ "Jordan upholds death penalty for the failed female suicide bomber". Amman, Jordan: People's Daily. 28 January 2007. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
  4. ^ "Would-be bomber to face execution in Jordan". Amman, Jordan: AP/Seattle Times. 28 January 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  5. ^ "Jordan convicts 10 on terrorism charges". Telegraph.co.uk. 4 October 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  6. ^ "Jordan: Female bomber is sister of top Al-Qaida figure in Iraq". Amman, Jordan: AP/Haaretz. 12 November 2005. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
  7. ^ "Who is Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, the female suicide bomber at the heart of 'Isis' Japanese prisoner swap plan?". The Independent. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  8. ^ Jason Hanna, CNN (27 January 2015). "New apparent ISIS post threatens Japanese hostage, Jordanian pilot - CNN.com". CNN. Retrieved 2 February 2015. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  9. ^ Charlotte Alfred (February 3 2015). "Jordan To Execute Sajida Al-Rishawi After ISIS Video Released - huffingtonpost.com". Huffington Post. Retrieved 3 February 2015. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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