Sajida Mubarak al-Rishawi was captured by Jordanian officials during the suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan.

She is also the sister of "Al-Hajji" Thamer Mubarak, a former Iraqi military officer turned key aide to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was involved in the August 2003 attack on UN headquarters in Iraq.

Prior to the war, many in the U.S. intelligence community believed that Baathists and Saddam’s forces couldn’t sustain a cooperative relationship Islamists like Zarqawi. No one, apparently, ever told Rishawi or her family.