Looking nervous and wringing her hands, al-Rishawi described the attack on the Radisson. The Grand Hyatt and Days Inn hotels also were bombed.
"My husband detonated (his bomb) and I tried to explode my belt but it wouldn't," she said. "People fled running and I left running with them."
Her husband, Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari, 35, was identified Sunday as one of three Iraqi men who carried out the bombings.
I'd guess second thoughts rather than a convenient technical flaw in the belt.
Rather illustrative of the wider trends in the Moslem world. She is much like the Moslem world that is nervous now that jihadis kill them without remorse. She, too, was taught to hate by the jihadis who show how to kill. And she, too, now runs from the death and mayhem she used to believe was right and just.
The hatred for us in the Moslem world was there before we destroyed Saddam's regime. September 11, 2001 was the ultimate in the free hate that the Moslem world indulged in. They watched it on al Jazeera and cheered. Jordan's continued support for the killers was an anomaly in the Moslem world that is shifting slowly away from the death cult that slaughters in their name.
But now an Arab wedding party was blown apart, shattering lives that looked to the future with hope. Now even Jordanians are repulsed. Now the hate is in their neighborhoods. The bombers are in their cities. Their hotels explode in flame. And the death is something they must mourn and not celebrate.
The willing wives of killers are running away from death, wringing their hands over the road they traveled down willingly in the darkness of their rage, but which now seems so frightening in the light of day. This is a good thing.
