 The State Security Court president has given Jordanian fugitive Abu Mussab Zarqawi 10 days to surrender and face trial in connection with hotel bombings late last year. "I give you 10 days from the date of publication of this notice to surrender to the judicial authorities to face trial," said a statement published in the press on Wednesday and signed by the head of the tribunal. "If you do not surrender during that time you will be considered fugitive," it said.
The surrender notice was also addressed to five Iraqis and a Jordanian indicted along with Zarqawi last week for the Nov. 9 triple hotel bombings in Amman that killed 60 people. But according to court papers obtained by AFP, Iraqi woman would-be suicide bomber Sajida Rishawi will be the only suspect to stand trial for the hotel bombings, which were claimed by Zarqawi's Al Qaeda group in Iraq. Rishawi was arrested four days after the bombings and later shown confessing on state television how she tried but failed to activate an explosives belt at the Radisson SAS Hotel where a wedding party was in full swing. |