Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi ( c. 1970 – 4 February 2015 ) was a failed suicide bomber . She was convicted of possessing explosives and intending to commit a terrorist act in the November 9 , 2005 Amman bombings in Jordan that killed 60 people and injured 115 others , having survived when her explosive belt failed to detonate . Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the triple bombings that simultaneously hit three nearby hotels , and said they carried out the attack because the hotels were " a secure place for the filthy Israeli and Western tourists to spread corruption and adultery at the expense and suffering of the Muslims in these countries . " She and her husband Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari are thought to have been Iraqi citizens and had Iraqi accents . According to her confession they traveled into Jordan about five days before the bombings on forged passports . She , along with her husband , entered the Amman Radisson Hotel ballroom during a wedding . When she had trouble detonating her suicide belt her husband pushed her out of the room before detonating a bomb that killed 38 people
2005 Amman bombings
2005 Amman bombings
Sajida Al-Rishawi