AMMAN (AP):
STUNG INTO action by deadly hotel bombings, Jordan slapped on tough new security rules yesterday, including a demand that citizens report the identities of any foreigners renting apartments or houses.
Eleven top Jordanian officials, including the national security adviser, also resigned in a post-attack shake-up.
A fourth American died of wounds sustained in the attacks, according to the United States Embassy. The American was not further identified nor had been on the embassy's records until officials learned of the death yesterday.
The death took to 61 the number of people killed, including three bombers.
U.S. National Intelligence Director John Negroponte met top officials here to praise Jordan's response to last Wednesday's attacks, official media said, as interrogators quizzed the sole surviving member of the Iraqi attack team - to see what she knows about al-Qaida's network in Jordan's war-ravaged neighbour.
Two Interpol forensic crime experts also arrived in Amman to "exchange information and expertise (with Jordanian counter-parts) in the field of fighting crime," according to Petra.
EMERGING INFORMATION
More details emerged about Sajida Mubarak al-Rishawi, the would-be bomber arrested Sunday following the triple suicide bombings carried out by her husband and two 23-year-old Iraqis on the Radisson SAS, Grand Hyatt and Days Inn hotels.
Three of her brothers, including a known al-Qaida in Iraq cell leader in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah, were killed by U.S. forces last year, according to two friends of the would-be bombers from Iraq's battle-scarred western province of Anbar.
