If terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi thought his fellow Jordanians would respond to this week’s suicide bombings in that country with sympathy for al-Qaida’s cause, he was sorely mistaken. In the wake of the three attacks killing 57 people, the backlash of street protests, official condemnations and 100-plus arrests is the most encouraging sign in a while that al-Qaida cannot win friends in the Arab world by slaughtering innocents in the twisted name of Islam. Whatever end al-Zarqawi has in mind, this means increasingly seems likely to foster only resistance to all terrorism.
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What a God-awful shame that this happened, but I do hope the Muslim world will begin to get some of these scum bags.
It is very hard to see how al Zarqawi thinks he is advancing Al Qaeda’s cause. Far and away, most of the people killed in his suicide attacks are Muslims.
I read a figure in the Washington Post where 70% of people polled in Jordan thought Al Qaeda was a legitimate resistance movement. I’m thinking this view is going down, now.
Maybe the Jordanian reaction to these attacks will help Iraqis unite in their opposition to them. Al Zarqawi could not be operating successfully in Iraq without the help of Sunni insurgents.
Al-Qaida has also miscalculated the US. Although their calculation that America will just appease them is starting to come forth. Thanks to leftist!
Heh, that’s assuming anything the Bush administration can be believed anymore.
Al Zarqawi was “our friend” before the invasion because he raided Saddam Hussein’s Sunni areas while being protected by the semi-autonomous Kurds.
Then before the invasion, we couldn’t take Al Zarqawi out because BushCo wanted him as “proof” that Al Qaeda was in Iraq, heigh ho.
Now this incredible man of steel Al Zarqawi is responsible for everything everywhere in Iraq. This one-legged terrorist can strike anywhere, and doggone it, with only 150,000 troops there, we just can never seem to find the guy.
Meanwhile, British troops dressed as locals are caught and imprisoned with a car full of explosives, that is, until the British tanks knock down the wall of the prison and get them out.
Troops dressed as Arabs? With car bombs?
I agree that a bomb went off in Jordan. But who set it and why is not something I trust Bush or the “in-bed”ed media suck-ups to get right.
JoeW.–We “leftist” wanted to track down and kill or capture Osama bin Forgotten.
The Iraq war-for-oil has nothing to do with “fighting terrorism.”
And it’s exhibit A of why Al Qaeda is still out there and terrorizing the world with impunity. Our troops are in Iraq instead of where the bad guys are.
Steve E.–
Yeah, hmmm, Al Qaeda attacks people who support them.
Doesn’t make sense, does it?
I think even murderous terrorists don’t do things that don’t advance their cause . . .
Which leads to the obvious question of who DOES benefit from this?
Israel & the United States.
Wull, gol-llY . . .
Well, Galahad, apparently you’re wrong. The latest is Al Qaeda operatives did cause the bombings.
The thing you don’t seem to understand about terrorists is they don’t care who gets caught in the middle as long as their main target is hit.
They took out four airplanes and killed thousands so they could bomb the world (as in global) trade center buildings as well as the pentagon.
Do you really think they care if they blow up Jordanians, or Palistinians? Their arrogance and hatred of everything West makes them blind to the damage they are doing to their own cause.
If you want to corrolate what they are doing with what we are doing in Iraq, be my guest. But you would be wrong again.
We should not be in Iraq. That’s a given. But we are not sending out suicide bombers to kill innocent civilians, nor are we targeting civilians. Al Qaeda is, and could care less if they are.
So who benefits from the terrorist bombings in Jordon? No one benefits. Everybody loses. Innocent people are dead, and terrorists caused it.
Tracy, you are dead on: Lets hope that the Muslim world starts taking the killing of their own people by these scumbags seriously, and starts bagging and tagging.
Galahad!
Osama Bin Laden was offered to the USA several times during the Clinton Administration. His Administration refused!
The point is vaid, the terrorists see the Moslems that are killed as simply, “the price of doing buisness”. To date, Al Qaeda has actually killed more Moslems then westerners.
Galahad, where did you come up with British troops and car bombs?I am not saying it is not believable, in fact it is not unheard of. But I would like to see the write up.
Part of the lack of understanding of the mindset is cultural. I attended a terrorism seminarin the early eighties. The spokesman said to the kidnappers of westerner in Lebanon. We were the ones not playing by the rules. For centuries Kidnapping had been a deplomatic tool in the middle east. When we said that there would be no negotiations. They could not understand it, we were not following the rules of the game.
Good point dog, I never thought about the abductions as part of a cultural legacy.I wouldn’t play by the other team’s rules in such a deadly game!If you let me establish the rules I’d be a real twit if I couldn’t win by my own rules.
If you haven’t seen the purported letter from al Zawahiri (Al Qaeda’s number two man – the Egyptian physician who prays so hard he has a callus on his forehead) to al Zarqawi, I would recommend looking at it. In the letter, al Zawahiri explains to al Zarqawi that beheading, etc. of Shi’ites doesn’t play well in the Muslim streets.
This document was released by our government and considered authentic by them. There is only one problem with it — it contains a greeting that only a Shi’ite Muslim would say and is something that speaks to the theological divide between Shi’ite and the other Muslim sects. It would be like me giving the Nazi salute to Galahad and saying “Zeig heil”. This strange part of the letter has led some to think that it was a forgery — and maybe done by Shi’ites.
To find a copy of the letter google these fellows names.
Steven
“Our Government” is under the control of Israeli Zionists.
Bush is little more than a figurehead.
Anything coming from them is highly suspect.
American Zionists call themselves neoconservatives.
If Israeli Zionism isn’t dead, it needs to be helped into its grave.
And here’s the replacement. Good Jews all.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/644457.html
“Osama Bin Laden was offered to the USA several times during the Clinton Administration. His Administration refused!” – Joe William
True OBL was offered to the US. BUT, when it was followed up by the Clinton administration who asked the Sudanese government of the validity of the offer they had never heard of the person who acted as the go-between. And they denied the claim that they offered OBL up. The entire thing was a sham.
So what about the latest news?Home grown terror in Jordan.No mention of Israel and the evil zionists. A terrible way to get the Arabs and Muslims to finally police their own.
And the Mossad doesn’t have its own stockpile of “suicide bombers” at the ready.
How Naïve not to know who benefits.