Sunday, November 13 2005 17:05 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Amman: A woman has been arrested in connection with the blasts in three hotels in the Jordaninan capital in which 57 people were killed

This was disclosed by Jordan King Abdullah II at a meeting of the heads and representatives of several news agencies organised by Jordan.

"One woman has been arrested and we hope to get more leads that will allow us to reach to the bottom of the case," he said.

"She was supposed to blow herself up" at the Radisson SAS hotel on Wednesday, Abdullah told the sources at World Council meeting.

The King had told sources yesterday (Nov 13, 2005) that initial findings had shown that suicide bombers who carried out the attack of Wednesday were Iraqis.

"Our initial findings (show that the attackers) are Iraqis," he had said.

Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasser had earlier said three "non-Jordanian men" of al-Qaeda in Iraq were behind the triple blasts.

In his remarks today, King Abdullah said that extremists "hide behind religion to create differences among members of varous communities. Their aim is to have conflict in civilisations".

He said the international community and overwhelming majority have to stand up against extremists and terrorism.