Jordan questions relatives of Iraqi woman bomber

They said several Jordanians were being "interrogated for possible strong links" with the bombers belonging to al Qaeda in Iraq, which is led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

They said Sajida al-Rishawi, who confessed on television on Sunday she had tried to blow herself up alongside her husband, had gone to the city of Salt near Amman after the bombings.

"She went to seek Jordanian relatives of a sister who had married a Jordanian militant who died in Iraq and we are now interrogating people who contacted her," one source said.

The source, who asked not to be named, did not say how many people had been detained as suspects in Salt.

Jordanian officials who announced Rishawi's arrest on Sunday identified her as a sister of Samir Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, a former Zarqawi aide who was killed by US forces in Iraq.