Three brothers of a failed Iraqi suicide bomber had been killed by US forces, it was reported today.

An Iraqi woman appeared on Jordanian television today confessing to a failed bid to set off an explosives belt inside one of the three Amman hotels targeted by al-Qaida.

Police have arrested at least 120 people, mainly Iraqis and Jordanians, in the nationwide manhunt for those behind the triple Amman hotel bombings, a senior police official said today.

A security official says 120 people – mainly Iraqis and Jordanians – have been arrested in Amman hotel bombings dragnet.

Moustapha Akkad, the Syrian-born producer of the Halloween horror films, died today from injuries sustained in the triple hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan.

Thousands of Jordanians rallied in the capital and other cities shouting “Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!” a day after three deadly hotel bombings that killed at least 59 people.

A defiant Jordanian King Abdullah addressed the nation today, vowing to bring the perpetrators of the terror attacks that hit Jordan to justice.

US President George Bush today condemned the hotel bombings in Jordan, saying the attackers defiled Islam and the United States would help bring those responsible to justice.

The al-Qaida terror group has claimed responsibility for three suicide bombings in Jordan that killed at least 57 people, according to a message posted on the internet today.

Suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three US-based hotels in the Jordanian capital last night, killing at least 57 people and wounding at least 115 in an al-Qaida-style assault on the Arab kingdom with close ties to the United States and a border with Iraq.