Jordan rounds up suspects

Jordan8217;s security forces were interrogating scores of suspects on Friday in connection with this week8217;s triple bombings in Amman, even as Al Qaeda issued an Internet statement claiming an Iraqi married couple and two Iraqi men were behind the attacks.

8220;A group of martyrdom-seekers carried out the planning and implementation. They comprised three men and a woman who decided to accompany her husband on the path to martyrdom,8221; said the statement.

8220;It was agreed to use suicide belts for precision and to cause maximum damage,8221; it said.

The authorities have began hunting for Islamist underground cells. A security source said police had searched poor neighbourhoods of Amman where many Iraqi workers live.