Lawyers refuse to defend failed Iraqi woman suicide bomber

The Jordanian Bar Association today declined to provide a volunteer lawyer to defend an Iraqi woman tried for her role in a suicide bombing against three Jordanian hotels.

Sajida Mubarak al-Rishawi, 35, who failed to set off her suicide bomb vest, was charged in a military court with trying to carry out a terrorist attack. Sixty people died when three other suicide bombers, including her husband, set off explosives in the Amman hotels on November 9 last year.