In pictures: Amman hotel blasts

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Canadian Press - Mon Nov 14, 5:46 PM ET Iraqi Sajida Mubarek Atrous al-Rishawi. (AP/Jordanian TV)

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AP - Thu Nov 10, 5:19 PM ET
President Bush speaks Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 during a meeting in the Oval Office with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Bush pledged that the U.S. will do all it can to help pursue those responsible for Wednesday's bombings at three hotels in Jordan, a Middle East ally in the fight against terrorism. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

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AP - Thu Nov 10, 6:21 PM ET
Nader Akhras talks about his family during a news conference in Dallas, Thursday, Nov 10, 2005. Sixteen members of Akhras' extended family were killed while attending a wedding at one of the hotels bombed in Jordan. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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AP - Thu Nov 10, 6:22 PM ET
Nader Akhras, right, gets a hug from Ziad Qadora after a news conference in Dallas, Thursday, Nov 10, 2005. Sixteen members of Akhras' extended family were killed while attending a wedding at one of the hotels bombed in Jordan. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

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AFP - Thu Nov 10, 6:30 PM ET
Jordanian policemen patrol in front of the Radisson hotel, a day after a deadly suicide attack in Amman. US President George W. Bush expressed 'horror' at the deadly hotel bombings in Amman and said he had telephoned Jordan's King Abdullah II to assure him of his strong support.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)

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AFP - Thu Nov 10, 7:10 PM ET
Jordanian children light candles outside Amman's Grand Hyatt hotel. Jordan rounded up suspects over triple hotel bombings claimed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al-Qaeda group that killed 56 people, including foreigners, in the deadliest attacks in the kingdom's history.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)

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AFP - Thu Nov 10, 7:10 PM ET
Jordanian policemen inspect a room at the Radisson Hotel in Amman. Jordan rounded up suspects over triple hotel bombings claimed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al-Qaeda group that killed 56 people, including foreigners, in the deadliest attacks in the kingdom's history.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)

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AFP - Thu Nov 10, 7:10 PM ET
A Jordanian policeman stand guard outside Amman's Radisson SAS hotel. Jordan rounded up suspects over triple hotel bombings claimed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al-Qaeda group that killed 56 people, including foreigners, in the deadliest attacks in the kingdom's history.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)

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AFP - Thu Nov 10, 7:10 PM ET
Jordanians dig graves at a cemetery in Amman. Jordan rounded up suspects over triple hotel bombings claimed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al-Qaeda group that killed 56 people, including foreigners, in the deadliest attacks in the kingdom's history.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)

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AFP/File - Thu Nov 10, 7:10 PM ET
An Iraqi man paints over the picture of Al-Qaeda's frontman in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on a billboard in Baghdad. The claim, by an Al-Qaeda 'suicide martyr unit' active in Iraq, that it was behind suicide attacks on three hotels in Amman makes it likely that the bombers came from Iraq, a US intelligence official said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)

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AP - Thu Nov 10, 9:16 PM ET
Rima Akkad Monla, seen in this undated family photo, a former Los Angeles woman living in Beirut, was among dozens killed in the hotel bombings in Jordan. Her father, Moustapha Akkad, the executive producer of the 'Halloween' movies, was critically injured. The slain woman's mother, Patricia Akkad, told The Associated Press her daughter Rima Akkad Monla had just arrived in Amman for a wedding and was visiting with her father and stepmother inside a hotel lobby when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device. Patricia Akkad says her ex-husband, Moustapha Akkad of Los Angeles, suffered a heart attack as a result of the explosion and also sustained internal injuries. (AP Photo/Akkad Family)

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AP - Thu Nov 10, 9:23 PM ET
Rima Akkad Monla and her father Moustapha Akkad are seen in this family photo at Rima's wedding in Beirut, Lebanon, in August, 1999. Rima, a former Los Angeles woman living in Beirut, was among dozens killed in the hotel bombings in Jordan. Her father, the executive producer of the 'Halloween' movies, was critically injured. The slain woman's mother, Patricia Akkad, told The Associated Press her daughter had just arrived in Amman for a wedding and was visiting with her father and stepmother inside a hotel lobby when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device. Patricia Akkad says her ex-husband Moustapha Akkad suffered a heart attack as a result of the explosion and also sustained internal injuries. (AP Photo/Akkad Family)

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AP - Thu Nov 10, 9:46 PM ET
Chinese Ambassador to Jordan Luo Xingwu, center, and Political Counsellor Li Chen, left, call on Yao Liqiang, a Chinese wounded during the blast, conveying to him the regards of Chinese President Hu Jintao, the Chinese government and Chinese people as well, at a military hospital in Amman, Jordan, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005. More than 50 people were killed and up to 300 others wounded including three Chinese dead and one injured in the blasts that struck the Grand Hyatt, the Radisson SAS and the Days Inn hotel in downtown Amman on Wednesday. (AP Photo /Xinhua, Jiang Shaoqing)

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AP - Thu Nov 10,10:18 PM ET
Nader Akhras, right, receives a hug from a well wisher Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005, in Arlington, Texas, during a short memorial service for members of Akhras' family who were killed in a bombing at a hotel in Jordan. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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AP - Thu Nov 10,10:50 PM ET
Khaled Akhras, center front, and his brother Nader, right, receive hugs from well wishers,Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005, in Arlington, Texas, following a short memorial service in honor of member of their family who were killed at the hotel bombing in Jordan. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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AP - Thu Nov 10,10:52 PM ET
Khaled Akhras, left facing front, and his uncle Abdel Ihweil, right facing front, receive hugs from well wishers, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005, in Arlington, Texas, following a short memorial service in honor of their relatives who were killed in the hotel bombings in Jordan. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

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AFP/JRP-HO - Fri Nov 11, 3:55 AM ET
A picture made available by the Jordanian Royal Palace shows King Abdullah II addressing the nation from Amman. King Abdullah II said in a televised speech that his country will not be 'blackmailed' into changing its policies after the triple hotel bombings and vowed to catch the culprits.(AFP/JRP-HO)

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AFP - Fri Nov 11, 3:55 AM ET
Palestinian security forces escort the bodies of three Palestinians killed in the hotel blasts in Jordan after their handover to the Palestinian Authority (PA). The three are the head of military intelligence in the West Bank, General Bashir Nafeh (portraits on vehicle), his assistant Abed Allon and another member of the PA, Bashar Qaddumi. A fourth victim, Jihad Fattuh -- the brother of Palestinian Parliament Speaker Rawhi Fattuh -- will be transferred directly to Gaza for burial in his hometown(AFP/Awad Awad)

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AFP - Fri Nov 11, 3:55 AM ET
US President George W. Bush (L) shakes hands with Jordanian Ambassador to the US Karim Kawar after signing a book of condolence at the Embassy of Jordan in Washington, DC. Mosques across Jordan were to hold special mourning prayers for the victims of the deadly attacks against luxury hotels in the capital claimed by homegrown Islamist extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al-Qaeda branch(AFP/Mandel Ngan)

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Reuters - Fri Nov 11, 5:38 AM ET
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stands next to bodies of Palestinians killed by suicide bombers in Amman hotels, during the first anniversary of the death of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah November 11, 2005. Hundreds of Palestinians gathered near Arafat's grave in his old West Bank compound for a subdued commemoration of the first anniversary of their iconic leader's death. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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Reuters - Fri Nov 11, 5:40 AM ET
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stands next to bodies of Palestinians killed by suicide bombers in Amman hotels, during the first anniversary of the death of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah November 11, 2005. Hundreds of Palestinians gathered near Arafat's grave in his old West Bank compound for a subdued commemoration of the first anniversary of their iconic leader's death. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

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