Major Terrorist Attack

On Fox News, I just heard about three simultaneously-timed huge hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan (Holiday Inn, Days Inn, and the Hyatt....) At least 57 were killed and 115 injured.

All the hallmarks of Zarqawi (and Al Qaida).

UPDATE: I was wrong about the Holiday Inn; it was the Radisson. Full story at the Washington Post:

AMMAN, Jordan -- Suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three U.S.-based hotels in the Jordanian capital Wednesday night, killing at least 57 people and wounding 115 in what appeared to be an al-Qaida assault on an Arab kingdom with close ties to the United States.

The explosions hit the Grand Hyatt, Radisson SAS and Days Inn hotels just before 9 p.m. One of the blasts took place inside a wedding hall where 300 guests were celebrating. Black smoke rose into the night, and wounded victims stumbled from the hotels.

"We thought it was fireworks for the wedding but I saw people falling to the ground," said Ahmed, a wedding guest at the five-star Radisson who did not give his surname. "I saw blood. There were people killed. It was ugly."

Jordan's deputy prime minister, Marwan Muasher, said there was no claim of responsibility but that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, was a "prime suspect."

A U.S. counterterrorism official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the strong suspicion is that al-Zarqawi was involved because of his known animosity for Jordanian monarchy and the fact that it was a suicide attack, one of his hallmarks.

MORE: It's probably a coincidence, but today happens to be the anniversary of Kristallnacht.

posted by Eric on 11.09.05 at 07:04 PM





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Kristallnacht. No, no coincidence at all. None of this is coincidental, nor spontaneous, much as the Establishment would like us to believe that.

Now I'm reading Alan Stang on Colonel Edward Mandell House, Woodrow Wilson, and John Foster Dulles.

"....Very basically, as I have briefly stated elsewhere, the conspiratorial view of history is just one variety of what we might call the volitional view of history. Such assumes that in any historical event involving human beings, we bring to our examination of the data the understanding that individuals, unless psychotic, possess free will, or volitional control of their actions. We recognize instances of the abstract concept conspiracy by identifying particular human actions. These must involve two or more persons working toward the same objectives without announcing their plans to others in advance. Also, the objectives sought must be clearly immoral, or criminal. Often conspirators follow a plan outlined in advance, keep in close contact during their voluntary conspiring, and form or join organizations to accomplish their goal. But all such mechanics or means of conspiring are optional, none are essential. All we must know is that, for a significant period of time, two or more people have been working in concert toward the same negative ends, and doing so without making clear, at least to their potential victims, that such was underway."
-William H. McIlhany, The ACLU on Trial



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