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.
