Police have arrested an Iraqi woman would-be suicide bomber who failed to detonate her explosives inside one of Amman’s three bombed hotels, Jordanese officials announced today in a dramatic breakthrough in the case.

Iraq’s insurgency leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, now rivals Osama bin Laden as the world’s most influential terrorist, it has been claimed.

Four civilians were killed and 12 injured in a series of overnight strikes in the rebel-held Iraqi city of Fallujah, hospital staff said today.

A GROUP led by al-Qaida-linked operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for a wave of attacks across Iraq yesterday which killed 75 people.