Failed Jordan suicide bomber on television

Wearing a disabled explosives belt and a white headscarf and wringing her hands as she spoke, the Iraqi woman calmly described how she tried and failed to join her husband in a suicide attack on a hotel wedding party.

Millions of viewers across Jordan and the region watched as Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi gave her televised confession hours after she was arrested yesterday – an arrest that resulted in part from al-Qaida’s mistaken boast of her ”martyrdom".