Al-Rishawi's brother was once the right-hand man to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, said deputy premier Marwan Muasher. He said the brother, Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, was killed in the former terrorist stronghold of Fallujah, Iraq.

Dyno Nobel offers three different qualities of RDX:
● RDX, Type II
● RDX, Type II with less than 3% HMX ("quasi Type I")
● RS-RDX

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IPS POLITICS-US:
Spreading Diplomacy 101

"There is a problem underpinning all U.S. public diplomacy in the Middle East and that is the extent to which Arabs actually understand the U.S. rather well and have reasons for disliking American actions based on U.S. policy."

"A good public diplomacy response would be to show more of the debate within the U.S. so the Arab world understands there are plenty of people who disapprove of much of American-Israeli policy, and conversely that there are reasons why the U.S. behaves the way that it does."

In the Middle East, Prof. Cull told IPS,"We are dealing with a different culture and cannot assume that a message will be received with the intent with which it was transmitted. What hope is there for Bush to say 'sorry' to the Arab world when he doesn't seem to understand that no Arab takes an apology seriously unless the person apologising adds 'and I ask you to forgive me'."

Jordanian authorities said Safaa Mohammed Ali, 23, was part of the al-Qaida in Iraq squad that bombed the Grand Hyatt, Radisson SAS and Days Inn hotels. In Baghdad, the U.S. command released information a man by that name was detained by American forces in November 2004 during their assault on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. The Americans said they did not know if the man they detained was the same Safaa Mohammed Ali identified by the Jordanians as one of the bombers.

"He was detained locally at the division detention facility" but was released two weeks later because there was no "compelling evidence to continue to hold him" as a "threat to the security of Iraq," the military said.

The U.S. detention of thousands of Iraqis has been cited -- especially by members of the Sunni Arab minority that fuels the insurgency -- as a major motivation for the continuing campaign of violence.

Al-Rishawi, 35, from the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi and the sister of al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's slain lieutenant in western Iraq, was arrested Sunday. Police swooped on a safe house in the Jordanian capital after they were tipped by al-Qaida in Iraq's Internet claim that she had died in the attacks.

She was made to display the clothing she wore to the party in which at least 25 people were killed. She said her husband made all the arrangements for the plot and drove the group -- apparently including Safaa Mohammed Ali and the other bomber Rawad Jassem Mohammed, both 23 -- from Anbar to Amman, a roughly eight-hour trip across the bleak desert landscape.

Hers wasn't the first televised confession by terror suspects detained by Jordanian police. In April 2004, at least four Jordanian and Syrian militants linked to al-Zarqawi detailed their plot to launch chemical bomb attacks in Amman, particularly against the General Intelligence Department.

"I don't buy it. There are many contradictions, and it just doesn't make sense," said Mohammed al-Fakhiri, a 33-year-old cell phone shop owner in Amman. "The first thing she would have done is get rid of her explosive belt," al-Fakhiri said. "So how come she was caught with it?"

Sunni Triangle - Anbar Province

Is this the same RDX that disappeared from Al Qaaqa?

VIENNA, Oct 28 (AFP) - The International Atomic Energy Agency stepped back into the controversy over missing explosives in Iraq Thursday, insisting that almost 330 tonnes had indeed vanished from a depot in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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The 342 tonnes were made up of 195 tonnes of HMX, 141 tonnes of RDX and six tonnes of PETN.