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A Jordanian court has sentenced a failed Iraqi suicide bomber to death for her role in attacks on hotels in Amman which killed 60 people last year.A Jordanian court has sentenced a failed Iraqi suicide bomber to death for her role in attacks on hotels in Amman which killed 60 people last year.
Sajida al-Rishawi was filmed by police confessing to the 9 November attacks which were claimed by the late al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The court also passed death sentences by hanging on six other defendants who were tried in absentia.
However, she pleaded not guilty to the charges against her in court. Sajida al-Rishawi was filmed by police confessing to trying to take part in the 9 November attack, but said her explosives belt had not detonated.
Six others were also condemned to death by hanging in absentia, but they remain at large. She later said her confession was taken under duress and pleaded not guilty.
The attacks were claimed by al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab Zarqawi, who was killed in an operation by US forces earlier this year.
The court said Rishawi and the other six were found guilty "beyond doubt" in the deadliest bomb attack in Jordan's recent history.
During the trial her lawyer said she had no intention of killing herself and had not even tried to explode her belt.
A forensics expert told the court that the trigger mechanism on the belt had jammed.