Cause of death Execution by hanging | Occupation Suicide bomber | |
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Full Name Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi Born 1970 Iraq Known for Attempted suicide bombing in 2005 Amman bombings Spouse(s) Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari Died 4 February 2015, Zarqa, Jordan Similar Muath al‑Kasasbeh, Kenji Goto, Haruna Yukawa, Ziad Al‑Karbouly, Abu Musab al‑Zarqawi | ||
Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi (Arabic: ساجدة مبارك عطروس الريشاوي c. 1970 – 4 February 2015) was a failed suicide bomber. She was convicted of possessing explosives and intending to commit a terrorist act in the November 9, 2005 Amman bombings in Jordan that killed 60 people and injured 115 others, having survived when her explosive belt failed to detonate. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the triple bombings that simultaneously hit three nearby hotels, and said they carried out the attack because the hotels were "a secure place for the filthy Israeli and Western tourists to spread corruption and adultery at the expense and suffering of the Muslims in these countries."
Contents
- Jordan executes sajida al rishawi al qaeda member ziyad al karbouli
- Background and Amman bombings
- Court proceedings
- ISIL
- Execution
- References
Jordan executes sajida al rishawi al qaeda member ziyad al karbouli
Background and Amman bombings
She and her husband Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari are thought to have been Iraqi citizens and had Iraqi accents. According to her confession they traveled into Jordan about five days before the bombings on forged passports. She, along with her husband, entered the Amman Radisson Hotel ballroom during a wedding. When she had trouble detonating her suicide belt her husband pushed her out of the room before detonating a bomb that killed 38 people.
Court proceedings
Al-Rishawi was later captured by Jordanian authorities and confessed on national television. She was shown making a filmed confession with an apparent suicide bomb device around her and a detonator in hand showing that the device failed to explode, but later retracted her confession.
She was convicted of possessing explosives and intending to commit a terrorist attack, and sentenced to death by hanging by a Jordanian military court on 21 September 2006. She appealed against this conviction but her appeal was dismissed in January 2007. At the time of her execution, she was still engaged in the process of appeal of her sentence.
ISIL
Al-Rishawi was reportedly the sister of a former close aide of deceased al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, named by some reports as Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, who was killed by US forces in Iraq.
On 24 January 2015, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) offered to trade Jordanian Pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh for Sajida al-Rishawi. Following the beheading of Goto, Jordan put forward the option of exchanging al-Rishawi for Muath al-Kasasbeh, a Jordanian Air Force lieutenant taken prisoner by ISIL after his F-16 fighter plane crashed near Raqqa, Syria. The proposed exchange did not go further because ISIL failed to give plausible proof of life for al-Kasasbeh; ISIL released video footage in early February 2015 of al-Kasasbeh being burned alive, although Jordanian intelligence officials reported his killing may have taken place in early January 2015.
Execution
Al-Rishawi and Ziad Khalaf al-Karbouly were executed by hanging in the morning of 4 February 2015, which was expedited in retaliation for the burning death of Royal Jordanian Air Force lieutenant Muath al-Kasasbeh by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.