UPDATE 3: Who are the culprits? Since no one has claimed responsibility for the barbaric attacks, speculation has already begun and almost everyone is pointing to the one and only Zarqawi. He has threatened Jordan publicly a number of times so no surprise there. Also, these similtaneous attacks bear the hallmarks of Al-Qeada. I would say the culprits are either Zarqawi or an al-Qaeda copycat. But I was surprised to hear Salamet Ne’mat, the director of Al-Hayat office in DC, saying on CNN that Syria might be linked to this. Ha? Why Syria? What kind of an analysis is this!
UPDATE 2: I just finished chatting with my sister. She just got home. It was difficult for her to get inside the neighborhood of Rabieh where my parents live and where one of the hotels was attacked. The police cordoned off the area completely and she was stuck in her car on the outskirts of Rabieyh for almost an hour. She made it home with the help of one policeman. The Days Inn Hotel, which was the third hotel attacked, is only one mile away from where my family lives. She said they can smell the smoke from our house. This is just horrible!
I’m a bit calmer now that I know that my immediate family members and most of my friends are okay. Thank God! Now it is time to unleash my anger at the bloodsucking low-life barbarians that attacked my country and killed my people.
May you enjoy the hell that is awaiting you, where, to your dismay, you will be greeted by seven demons instead of your long-awaited virgins! May you rot in hell over and over again along with Zarqawi, Bin Laden, Bin Shit and all those that support you. Nothing in the world can justify this. Those that try to justify this can rot in hell as well! May God protect my country and my people. May God bless the souls of those barbarically massacred today. We will never forget!
UPDATE: Here is the latest: Aljazeera is reporting that three explosins occurred in Amman. One at the Radission SAS, one at the Grand Hyatt and one at Days Inn in Rabyeh neighbourhood. My parents, my sisters and maybe half of Jordan live in Rabyeh. My parents live very close to the Days Inn. I just called them and thank God they are fine. Dad said he heard the explosion. The death toll so far is 18!!
I’m shaking as I’m writing this. I do not know what to say anymore. I’m appalled, disgusted and on the verge of tears. My sister is still driving back home and I can’t get a hold of her. I feel like smashing this monitor right now!
Here is the MSNBC report. A Yahoo slideshow here and Sabbah’s Flicker. AP is running a continuing update here …
An explosion shook the Grand Hyatt hotel in Jordan’s capital late Wednesday, and witnesses saw smoke rising from the building. A police official said some people had been killed, "and there are many wounded." An American businessman who was at the hotel when the explosion occurred, said a "bomb that went off in the lobby." He declined to identify himself.
Police said the cause of the explosion was unknown. A black cloud of smoke was seen rising from the building in the commercial Jebel Amman district following the blast at about 8:50 p.m. (1:50 p.m. EST). Ambulances were seen rushing to the hotel.
This Week in Palestinian Blogs: Bethlehem Issues Call to the World
This Week in Palestinian Blogs: Bethlehem Issues Call to the World – On behalf of Palestinian Bloggers, I extend my deepest condolences to the people of Jordan. We are all one in this. Those who died are our brothers and sisters, they are in our prayers,
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Well said Jack,
You see I’ve lived in Jordan, I love the country and its people, and I think that Jordan’s monarchy is one the best things Jordan has. Some of my friends (JORDANIANS) got hurt in this murderous attack. I am not Jordanian, nor am I from the west. But I still care about the poor innocent people that got killed. UNLIKE THAT MORON JAREER, I don’t care what the religion or ethnicity of the victims is; what I care about, is that they were totally defensely and innocent.
You see this illiterate kid “Jareer” said the following:
“The terrorists were wrong this time; I can assure that they were thinking they are targeting western targets in those hotels”
Clearly Mr. Jareer’s statement implies that killing westerner is legitimate and killing non-westerners is “wrong”. Since our friend Mr. jareer qualified his statement with “this time”. Meaning that had the terrorists killed non-westerners instead of westerners than they would not have been wrong “this time”.
Mr Jareer further goes on to shoot himself in the foot by saying:
“[1]Does that imply if non moslems were attacked, he will be supported? [2] See who is the idiot now?”
Let’s answer each statement posed by this genius:
“[1]Does that imply if non moslems were attacked, he will be supported?”
ANSWER: That is precisely what YOU – JAREER- are implying in your [idiotic] statement. You said it and you meant it; I didn’t say it YOU DID. Your statement was sympathetic to the butcher terrorist cause.
[2] See who is the idiot now?”
Yes I see perfectly who the idiot is now, YOU, JAREER! Now and always you and your hypocrite ilk shall remain idiots.
You sure are trying hard to get that FREE PERMANENT Mukhabharat MANICURE!!
This Week in Palestinian Blogs: Bethlehem Issues Call to the World
On behalf of Palestinian Bloggers, I extend my deepest condolences to the people of Jordan. We are all one in this. Those who died are our brothers and sisters, they are in our prayers, their memory will linger forever in our hearts. God bless the sou…
This Week in Palestinian Blogs: Bethlehem Issues Call to the World
On behalf of Palestinian Bloggers, I extend my deepest condolences to the people of Jordan. We are all one in this. Those who died are our brothers and sisters, they are in our prayers, their memory will linger forever in our hearts. God bless the sou…
Yes and many will support him even if he kills muslims.
So, you say that that idiot is loosing the support of law-abiding moslems. Does that imply if non moslems were attacked, he will be supported ? See who is the idiot now?
You now go back to the street you came from and continue your education; there where you belong, man.
My apologies to Mr. Brehm, I mis-construed the order of postings and attributed Jareer’s comments to you.
Regarding Jareer’s comments:
“The terrorists were wrong this time; I can assure that they were thinking they are targeting western targets in those hotels”
Jareer, Are you BENT?!!!! Or just plain stupid. In that one statement you are telling us that either you are one of the terrorists, or that somehow you think like a religious fanatic terrorist. How can YOU “assure” us of what the terrorists are thinking. Are you telling us that you are one of them? that you seem to have some sort of “inside” perspective on what they are thinking?
Only a terrorist or a terrorist sympathizer can “assure” us of what the terrorists are thinking. Is that what you are Jareer? … A terrorist sympathizer or a terrorist?
Now let’s examine the facts: The terrorist at the Radisson-SAS spoke to the wedding guests -in Iraqi accented arabic-. That terrorist religious PIG knew that he was about to kill BABIES, CHILDREN, WOMEN and OLD MEN. He knew that his victims were Arab Muslims (real ones). He didn’t care! He was more interested in slaughter and mayhem (and possibly having an orgie with his so-called 70 virgins in Jana). What a total asshole, look at his motivation, in his mind, he is willing to kill scores of defenseless people in order to have 70 virgins in paradise satisfy his sick sexual desires; this is a much more plausible explanation of what this HYPOCRITE terrorist was thinking.
PIGS like Abu-Musabh (Al-Khalili) Az-Zarkawi, the Shamil Basayev’s tchechen terrorists the shoot childern in the back in Beslan, Pakistani terrorists in Kashmir, Abu-Sayyaf in the Phillipines, and trash like Al-Quaida (Madrid, Riyadh, Iraq, New York, New Delhi, Bali & Jakarta Indonesia, Sharm-El-Sheikh Egypt, East Africa, and now Amman Jordan) are losing their “Jihad”, thats why they are now resorting to killing innocent mainly muslim civilians. It seems that they are frustrated that they are not receiving the support from normal, law-abidding, fun-loving, Muslims in the their pathetic defeatist struggle.
Jareer it’s unthinking idiots like you that give all arabs a bad name. I hope the Jordanian Mukhabharat finds you and rips your nails out.