"Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!"
Jordanian-born terrorist mastermind al-Zarqawi made a strategic mistake when he bombed three hotels in Jodan frequented by westerners.
Thousands of Jordanians rallied in the capital and other cities shouting "Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!" a day after three deadly hotel bombings that killed at least 59 people. Officials suspected Iraqi involvement in the attacks, which were claimed by al-Qaida's Iraq branch. ...Al-Qaida justified the attacks by claiming that they were "confident that [the hotels] are centers for launching war on Islam and support the crusaders' presence in Iraq and the Arab peninsula and the presence of the Jews on the land of Palestine." But this was a difficult claim to make, given that the majority killed were Jordanian.The main demonstration in Amman lasted for more than an hour. But honking vehicles, decorated with Jordanian flags and posters of King Abdullah II, cruised Amman's streets until late in the night, as passengers chanted "Death to al-Zarqawi, the villain and the traitor!" and anti-terrorism slogans.
Jordan has played a dangerous game with terrorists for years, providing a safe haven for operations planning, not to mention a friend to the tyrant of Baghdad:
In 1990, the late King Hussein opposed the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi occupation. That encouraged Saddam to use Jordan as an extension of his Iraqi hinterland: He and his henchmen created shell companies in Jordan to beat the U.N. sanctions, taking over a couple of Jordanian banks, investing in real estate and laundering vast sums of money."Reaping the whirlwind" comes to mind.After Iraq's liberation, Jordan became a refuge for Ba'athist criminals and their families — who brought with them some of the estimated $500 million that Saddam's Vice President Izzat Ibrahim reportedly stole from the Central Bank in Baghdad before the regime's fall.
Since then, Jordan has emerged as a center for anti-Iraq — and, more specifically, anti-Shiite — propaganda.
Blog post #5560 in category
War on Islamofascism
posted 11 November 05