Another journalist war trophy that didn't get out of the airport:
One Killed in Jordan Airport Explosion
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 1:28 p.m. ET
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- A bag exploded near the luggage screening area at Jordan's international airport Thursday evening, killing a security guard, authorities said.
Police arrested the suspected owner of the bag, a Japanese journalist who told authorities he had no knowledge that he an explosive device in his possession, said officials involved in the investigation.
The man detained at Queen Alia International Airport had arrived from Baghdad, said CNN correspondent Rula Amin, who was at the airport when the bag exploded.
"He told me, 'It's not me; it's not me,''' Amin said.
The official Petra news agency said three other people were injured. It called the bomb a "remnant from the war in Iraq.''
The bag was checked on an EgyptAir flight to Cairo, Egypt, the officials said, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. Panic ensued after the blast at the busy airport, where passengers were either being checked in or departing to various destinations, including France, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Queen Alia airport was one of the targets of a terrorist conspiracy foiled in November 1999. The plot involved 28 Arab men who planned attacks on U.S. and Israeli targets in Jordan during millennium celebrations. Jordan military court in 2000 convicted six of the accused to death and acquitted six others.