A couple of days after a British tourist was killed and five other Western holidaymakers wounded in the centre of the Jordanian capital Amman on Monday, the Jordanian government declared that the assailant was deranged. A gunman opened fire at them in what officials said was a "terrorist" attack. A policeman was also wounded in the shooting at the Roman amphitheatre and the assailant, a Jordanian national, was arrested. The gunman's name is Nabil Ahmed Issa Jaourah, 38, and he is married and a father of five. He is from the Zarqa, the hometown of Jordanian militant Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader who was killed three months ago. "He was apprehended and an investigation is underway," a Jordanian government spokesman said. The other tourists wounded in the attack were two British women, a female visitor from Australia, another female tourist from New Zealand and one Dutch male tourist. Jordanian Interior Minister Eid Fayez told reporters the gunman apparently acted on his own volition. The attack is the first to rock the Jordanian capital since last November when triple suicide bombings on three Amman hotels killed 60 people.
