US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld criticized Arab countries including Saudi Arabia and Jordan for taking a wait-and-see approach to Iraq.
‘I think there is more they could have been doing, and I think there is more they should be doing, and I believe that we will be seeing them do more in the period ahead,’ he said in the interview with Radio Sawa, a US-financed station broadcast in the Middle East.
‘I think there is a certain amount of standing back and seeing how it would come out,’ he said.
AMMAN (Reuters) – At least five people were killed and more than 12 others were wounded on Wednesday in a blast at a major hotel in the Jordanian capital, Amman, Reuters witnesses said.
The explosion shook the Radisson hotel and several wounded people were seen in the lobby, witnesses said. The hotel is known to be popular with Israeli tourists.
I don’t know how many Israelis like to travel to Amman, but the reports now are that the Radisson, the Days Inn, and the Grand Hyatt were bombed, and that a lot of American military, contractors were staying there.
Zarqaaaaaaaweeee’s name has been mentioned. Bogey bogey.
Ah yes the mythical Zarquawi!! The Bush/Cheney Cabal boogey man.
Never did believe this guy existed. According to old, old news stories (which I cannot recall where) the big boogey man Zarquawi had his right leg removed after Tora Bora. He supposedly was in Bagdad getting fitted for a wooden one when we did the “shock and awe” thing.
Now this dark side superhero is able to move around like a superbly conditioned athlete with a bionic type leg. However biotech firms in this country state that a near perfect prosthetic, that functions exactly like a real leg (Nicholas Berg Video), cannot be made yet. The closest they have been able to come is up, down, and sideway movements of hands for quadriplegics by implanting electrodes hooked to brain waves.
Also this this “evil” genius somehow went from a roughly 85 IQ when he was a small time hood in Jordan to 160 strategic and tactical military master mind. As a former teacher, I don’t believe this is in the realm of possibility. Perhaps someone out here has more info than I do.
Dahr Jamail visited Zarquawi’s home town in Jordan. His wife will talk to no one and wears widows clothes. The neighbors and other Zarquawi relatives all claim he is dead. The full story on this is on Dahr’s blog.
Does anyone else have more concrete information?
These guys definitely read WAY TOO MUCH science fiction.
Washington has Resolve and will continue killing him as many times as it needs to.
He says those bionic legs are cheap Wal-Mart crap that fade in the shower and he would quit except he needs the Blue Cross for allergies.
Maybe OBL migrated to Jordan?
Hmm, timing is everything.
For some reason, I am not suprised.
Looking bad – this from BBC
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Latest news from BBC World Radio report from Jordan!
At least 53 people have been killed and more than 200 were injured in explosions at international hotels in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
The Grand Hyatt, Radisson and Days Inn hotels were hit in near-simultaneous blasts at about 21:00 (19:00 GMT).
Police say they suspect the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers.
One explosion occurred in a wedding hall where 300 Jordanians were celebrating. Muasher said a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in the wedding party. Black smoke rose into the night and wounded stumbled out of the hotels.
Breaking News – SKY TV
“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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MSNBC is spewing Zarquawi network responsible. How can they possibly know this at this point in time?
by a senior White House official.
Does this mean that freedom is on the march again, or does it mean that they hate the Jordanians freedom too?
Well, based on the early reports we know at least 3 Israelis were there…
per Haaretx per MSNBC TV, Israeli citizens were evacuated and escorted back to Israel by Jordanian security forces before the bombings occurred.
Rather like the mysterious movements of senior Israeli officials before the July 7 bombings in London, no?
I don’t know who this change of subject benefits most today, King George or the woeful Tony Blair?
Tony got his proverbial dick knocked in the dirt today by Parliment’s rejection of his 90 day without charge detention plank in his terrorism bill.
I believe the current tally is 57 killed, 200 injured and for that, I am sorry.
Thanks for the juxtaposition of those stories, Boo. For some reason you always seem to arouse my conspiracy suspicions.
I will never again believe in coincidence when it comes to these guys.
said on Seinfeld?
“There are no big coincidences and small coincidences, there are only coincidences.”
Of course, she was lying.