Iraq's al Qaeda said on Thursday it carried out bomb attacks on three international hotels in Amman because they were used by American and Israeli spies, according to an Internet statement.
"These hotels were chosen because they became the favourite place for American and Israeli intelligence and other western European governments to carry out their invisible attacks which they call the war on terror," the group said on a Web site generally used to post such claims.
"Egyptian, Palestinian Authority, Saudi and Jordanian spies also operated there to plot against the mujahideen (holy warriors) in Palestine and Iraq," the group said.