Jordan said today that it had arrested the wife of an Amman suicide bomber, caught after she failed to detonate her explosives belt during a wedding reception in one of the hotels targeted in the attacks that killed 57 people.

The woman failed to blow herself up at the Radisson SAS hotel after apparently struggling with the cord on her explosives belt, Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher said. Her husband saw her fumbling and “pushed her out of the ballroom,” he said. “Once she was out, he blew himself up.”

It was unclear where police arrested the woman. Officials said she would confess on state-run TV later Sunday.

Muasher said the three men who blew themselves up Wednesday in three U.S.-based hotels in the capital were Iraqis affiliated with al-Qaida in Iraq, the terror group led by Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The group has claimed responsibility for the attacks and said there were four bombers including a husband-and-wife team.

Muasher identified the woman as Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, 35, and her husband as Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari, from Iraq’s volatile Anbar province in Iraq. The woman is the sister of Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, al-Zarqawi’s right-hand man in Anbar who was killed by U.S. forces in Fallujah, he said.

Source: MSNBC.com