Motive Glimpsed in Jordan Attack

"We saw the outcome of the dangerous crime where there is no description for it in any dictionary," Abbas said, appearing minutes later at a bank of microphones set up for Rice. "Those do not belong to any human race, Arab or Islam. Those are affiliated to obscurity, blackness and sabotage. May God curse them from this day until Judgment Day."

Rice, arriving several hours after her intended time, briefly touched a wreath of white and yellow flowers placed near the lobby and said, "We stand as you stood by us."

A banner hanging in front of the hotel read: "Long live Jordan, land of security and safety."

In Fallujah, Ahmed Muhammed Ali, 30, a cousin of Rishawi's husband, said Shamari was a car mechanic who repaired home air conditioners on the side. He was influenced by the Zarqawi militants who controlled the city before the U.S.-led military offensive in the city, the cousin said.

"He stayed and fought in the Fallujah battles," Ali said of his cousin. In June, Shamari fled to Ramadi, another restive city in the western Anbar province of Iraq. "Then he sent for his wife to go after him, and we never heard anything about him since then," Ali said.

It could not be determined whether the couple had children.

Family members learned of the bombings in Amman in a phone call from Ramadi. "We were happy," Ali said. "We were surprised by his wife's move and bravery. We heard that their operation was in a hotel full with Mossad," Israel's intelligence service. "We were shocked when we saw on TV the number of civilians killed in the operation because we thought the killed would be Americans and Jews, but they were Muslims, regretfully."

Special correspondents Yasmin Mousa in Amman and Omar Fekeiki in Baghdad contributed to this report.