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...turns out that she was married only two weeks ago during an Islamic holiday, embarking not on a honeymoon, but on a dance of death with her own groom. Zarqawi's group lauded Rishawi as one of "the lions from our best and most honored brigade." But to Amman writer Nasuh Majali, and many other Jordanians, she is one of "the enemies of the Arabs and Muslims...
...With additional reporting from Saad Hattar/ Amman...
...stubborn side kicked into high gear. "I'm not going to leave here until we get an agreement," she told an aide. She decided to delay her departure for Asia and return to Jerusalem after paying a condolence call on Jordan's King Abdullah in response to the Amman terror attacks...
...poster girl for suicide terror. But she is inspiring revulsion, not veneration, in Jordan and beyond. The 35-year-old Iraqi woman from the restive Sunni city of Ramadi had traveled to Jordan intending to be the fourth bomber in last week's suicide attacks on hotels in Amman. Instead, Jordanian sources tell TIME, she was arrested Sunday morning in the historic city of Salt, after fleeing the Radisson SAS hotel and making her escape by taxi. The sources say that she headed for the western Jordanian city, known for its radical Islamists, in search of shelter with...
...against American and other foreign forces. (After the bombings, Kuwaiti commentator Ahmed Rabi scolded the Jordanian media for its past "defense of the black violence in Iraq.") In justifying the slaughter, a statement from Abu Musab al Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's Jordanian-born leader in Iraq, explained that the Amman hotels were targeted because they were "used as a garden for the Jews and Christians...as a base for infidel intelligence forces who are conspiring against Muslims...