Jordan identifies four Iraqis as hotel bombers

Deputy Prime Minister Marwan al-Muasher said the woman, who failed to blow herself up and was in custody, was the wife of one of the attackers and the sister of a late lieutenant of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

She would be shown on television later in the day, he said.

The three bombers died in the attack, which left 57 dead.

Muasher told a news conference the attackers entered Jordan four days before Wednesday's near-simultaneous attacks.

He said the woman accompanied her husband into a wedding hall in one of the hotels and that when her suicide belt failed to blow up the husband pushed her outside before detonating himself.

Iraq's al-Qaeda, led by Jordanian-born Zarqawi, had claimed the blasts that killed 57 people at three hotels in Amman.