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Title: Who is Sajida al-Rishawi? And why does ISIS care about her?
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URL Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/24/w ... n-sajida-al-rishawi/index.html
Published: Jan 25, 2015
Author: By Ray Sanchez, CNN
Post Date: 2015-01-25 21:49:23 by GrandIsland
Keywords: None
Views: 730
Comments: 4

(CNN)She's remembered as the would-be bomber whose device failed to detonate in a string of otherwise deadly terror attacks at Jordanian hotels in 2005.

But just who is the woman supposedly named in the latest hostage demand from ISIS? And what's her connection to the new radical Sunni group that controls big swaths of Syria and Iraq?

Sajida al-Rishawi is referred to as an "imprisoned sister" of the terrorist group in a message purportedly posted online by a known ISIS supporter.

The message proposes a swap of al-Rishawi for Japanese hostage Kenji Goto. In the video, Goto is seen holding a photo of what appears to be beheaded compatriot Haruna Yukawa.

The online posts, which CNN could not verify independently, appeared four days after an ISIS video demanded that the Japanese government pay $200 million within 72 hours for the hostages' release.

In the latest recording, the voice of a person claiming to be Goto is heard in English blaming Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for Yukawa's death. Forgoing the money, the voice then issues a new ISIS demand: the release of al-Rishawi.

"They are just demanding the release of their imprisoned sister Sajida al-Rishawi," the voice said.

Out of sight for almost a decade Al-Rishawi, who is being held by authorities in Jordan, has not been seen publicly in nine years.

In a televised confession in November 2005, al-Rishawi calmly recounted how she tried to take part in a string of terror attacks at Jordanian hotels that month that killed at least 57 people.

"My husband detonated his bomb, and I tried to detonate mine but failed," al-Rishawi said on Jordanian television, showing no emotion. "People fled running, and I left running with them."

In 2006, al-Rishawi was sentenced to death, but that same year, Jordan imposed a moratorium on the death penalty. Executions resumed last month.

Wearing a white head scarf and black dress during the confession, al-Rishawi displayed a belt rigged with explosives and crudely held together with tape.

Jordanian authorities said al-Rishawi, now in her 40s, joined her husband, Hussein Ali al-Shamari, to carry out the suicide bombings at the Radisson hotel.

His explosives went off, killing 38 people attending a wedding reception in the ballroom. Three male bombers and 57 bystanders were killed at three hotels in the series of attacks.

She said she was an Iraqi who lived in Ramadi and, using fake passports, traveled to Jordan with her husband. She told Jordanian authorities that her husband taught her how to use her explosives belt.

In the confession, al-Rishawi said, "My husband is the one who organized everything."

Jordan: Al Qaeda was behind attacks Jordanian authorities at the time said the attacks were orchestrated by the terrorist group al Qaeda in Iraq, which was led by Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. strike in June 2006. A post on a website used by al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for the Jordan attacks.

Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher said after the attacks that al-Rishawi is the sister of Zarqawi's "right-hand man," who was killed in Falluja, Iraq. He did not identify the lieutenant.

This image from video posted on a militant website on July 5 purports to show ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq. ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a lieutenant of al-Zarqawi, retired Lt. Col. James Reese, a former U.S. Delta Force commander, told CNN.

"There's a link back to this woman," Reese said of the alleged prisoner swap. "This is just another way to help them (ISIS) bring these people back and help with their propaganda."

In February 2014, al Qaeda renounced ties to ISIS after months of infighting between ISIS and another group, al-Nusra Front. ISIS started in 2004 as al Qaeda in Iraq with the aim of creating an Islamic state across Sunni areas of Iraq and in Syria.

After the Jordan attacks, Muasher told CNN that al-Rishawi was not wearing an explosives belt when she was apprehended, but two belts were found with her. One was filled with the explosive RDX, the other with ball bearings, a technique used by the other bombers.

"The aim was to inflict the largest number of casualties," he said.

Muasher said Jordanian authorities had information that al-Rishawi's husband "asked her to step out of the room" when her explosives failed to detonate.

In her confession, al-Rishawi said she and her husband stood at opposite sides of the room for the double-bombing.

"There was a wedding ceremony in the hotel," she said. "There were women, men and children."

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#1. To: All (#0)

In 2006, al-Rishawi was sentenced to death, but that same year, Jordan imposed a moratorium on the death penalty. Executions resumed last month.

If they executed her... she wouldn't be a bargaining tool.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-01-25   21:54:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: GrandIsland, ALL (#0)

Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher said after the attacks that al-Rishawi is the sister of Zarqawi's "right-hand man," who was killed in Falluja, Iraq. He did not identify the lieutenant.

SOURCE:HAARETZ

Jordan: Female bomber is sister of top Al-Qaida figure in Iraq

The would-be woman bomber was identified as Sajida Mubarak Atrous al- Rishawi, 35, the sister of the slain former militant Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, the former right-hand man of al-Zarqawi, the head of Al-Qaida in Iraq.

Muasher said the brother was killed by U.S. forces in the one-time terrorist stronghold of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, but it was unclear when.

It also was unclear where police arrested the woman, or when.

Al-Qaida in Iraq had already claimed responsibility for the bombings, which it said it launched to strike at Jordan's support for the United States and other Western powers, and because it accused Jordan of defiling Islam.

But Al-Qaida, in its Internet claims of responsibility, had said that all four bombers succeeded, so the news of the arrest of one would-be bomber - the woman - came as a surprise.

King Abdullah, who also said Sunday that three Iraqi men and one woman carried out the attacks, has pledged to target anyone supporting or sympathizing with such terrorists.

Muasher said the three suicide bombers who attacked the Grand Hyatt, Radisson SAS and Days Inn hotels Wednesday - killing 57 others - were all Iraqis. They were identified as al-Rishawi's husband, Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari, 35, from Anbar; Rawad Jassem Mohammed Abed, 23; and Safaa Mohammed Ali, 23.

The four left their apartment on Wednesday - the day of the attacks - and took taxis to the hotels, including the Radisson, where almost 300 people were attending a Jordanian-Palestinian wedding reception in one of the hotel's ballrooms.

"It is clear from the way she was dressed and the explosive belts with ball bearings that they wanted to target innocent civilians, and also wanted to inflict the biggest number of casualties and victims," Muasher said.

Al-Rishawi entered the hotel's reception with her husband. When the husband noticed his wife was having trouble detonating her bomb by pulling its primer cord, he "pushed her out of the ballroom. Once she was out, he blew himself up," Muasher said.

The bomb strapped to the man's body was packed with the powerful explosive RDX and ball bearings and was designed to kill as many people as possible, Muasher said.

Investigations showed that no Jordanians were involved in the actual attacks, but several Jordanian followers of al-Zarqawi have been arrested, the deputy premier added.

Al-Qaida in Iraq's operation in Jordan - its deadliest inside a neighboring Mideast country - raised fears that al-Zarqawi's terror campaign has gained enough momentum to spread throughout the region.

Jordan's confirmation of the Iraqi link could harm already bruised relations with its eastern neighbor after both have previously traded diplomatic blows over the crossing backward and forward of militants.

Earlier Sunday, Iraq's defense minister offered Jordan its support in the hotel bombings probe and warned that unchecked violence in Iraq will spread terrorism across the region.

"We are partners in facing terrorism," Defense Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi told The Associated Press. "Amman's ordeal and Jordan's ordeal is the ordeal of all Iraqis."

The terrorists' "target is to kill tolerance and destroy coexistence in Arab and Muslim cities," al-Dulaimi said.

Al-Dulaimi also criticized Syria for letting Islamic extremists train on its soil and enter Iraq to carry out terrorist attacks.

"Let me tell the Syrians that if the Iraqi volcano explodes no neighboring capital will be saved," the Iraqi official said. "We have a 620 kilometer border with this country and we have 620 problems with the Syrians."

The United States and Iraq have repeatedly called on Syria to lock down its borders and stop Al-Qaida in Iraq extremists allied to Jordanian-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi entering Iraq.

Syria has also been implicated by United Nations in the Feb. 14 assassination of ex-Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri.

"It seems our brothers in Syria won't like what we say in this period, which is a critical one for the Syrians," al-Dulaimi said.

Wednesday's Amman hotel attacks sparked the largest Jordanian manhunt in living history and angered most of this desert kingdom's 5.4 million people and many of the 400,000 Iraqis living here.

Al-Zarqawi, who traveled from militant training grounds in Afghanistan to Iraq before the U.S.-led 2003 war, has been sentenced to death in absentia in Jordan for terror-related crimes here. He has vowed to topple the kingdom's moderate Hashemite rulers.

("We sing about God because we believe in Him. We are not trying to offend anybody, but the evidence that we have seen of Him in our small little lives trumps your opinion about whether or not He exists". ~ Jeff Foxworthy)

Murron  posted on  2015-01-25   22:41:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Murron (#2) (Edited)

it accused Jordan of defiling Islam.

Queen Rania is a university graduate in computer science and at one time was considered the third most beautiful woman in the world. She has never worn anything but Western clothing and flaunts long beautiful hair. She has her own jeep and uses it to visit the army wearing an army uniform to build up morale. It works. For a month after her visits everybody is wearing a grin. She conducts serious economic seminars. She works unceasingly to upgrade the educational level, independence, and status of Jordianian women. She has been on American national TV. She is well loved by the Jordanian people.

King Abdullah was educated at the U. S. Naval Academy and has difficulty speaking arabic. Both Abdulla and Rania nominally claim to to be muslim. Abdullah claims to be a descendant of Mohammed. However, everything they do is contrary to the islamic life style. This enrages non Jordian Islamics. It's clearly an insult to islam which must be punished. It's payback time in the minds of the al-Zarqawis and similar psychotics.

rlk  posted on  2015-01-26   2:12:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: GrandIsland (#0)

It's a simple deal: ISIS, for every prisoner you execute, we will execute ten Muslim insurgents we hold as prisoners.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-01-26   9:39:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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