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The al-Qaeda network has claimed it carried out the bomb attacks which killed at least 57 people in three hotels in Jordan’s capital Amman.
The alleged claim was made in a statement posted on the internet.
Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher had earlier said that al-Qaeda militants in neighbouring Iraq were a “prime suspect” for the bombs.
At least 300 people, mostly Jordanians, were injured in the blasts at the Grand Hyatt, Radisson and Days Inn hotels.
’Suicide bombers’
The BBC’s Caroline Hawley - who was staying at the Hyatt when the bomb exploded - says that it is always difficult to verify al-Qaeda claims appearing on the internet and it may simply be that al-Qaeda in Iraq would want to claim the attack. However, the authorities have been saying that the attack bears all of the hallmarks of al-Qaeda, and in particular the Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4423714.stm
The alleged claim was made in a statement posted on the internet.
Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher had earlier said that al-Qaeda militants in neighbouring Iraq were a “prime suspect” for the bombs.
At least 300 people, mostly Jordanians, were injured in the blasts at the Grand Hyatt, Radisson and Days Inn hotels.
’Suicide bombers’
The BBC’s Caroline Hawley - who was staying at the Hyatt when the bomb exploded - says that it is always difficult to verify al-Qaeda claims appearing on the internet and it may simply be that al-Qaeda in Iraq would want to claim the attack. However, the authorities have been saying that the attack bears all of the hallmarks of al-Qaeda, and in particular the Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4423714.stm