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2003-11-20 Middle East

First Direct al Qaeda Strike in Israel â from Jordan

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-11-20 13:31|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 King Abdullah may want to attend the terrorism summit in SA. Word is they are working on ways to counteract terrorism via Islam.

Posted by Lucky 2003-11-20 1:47:29 PM|| 2003-11-20 1:47:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 The Jordanians, whose military intelligence is usually excellent when it comes to Muslim subversive activities, hadnât a clue Al Qaeda had been running a recruitment network inside the kingdom through a small and relatively obscure organization called..

This is what is known in the West as "denial"....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-20 1:49:56 PM|| 2003-11-20 1:49:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 JPost is saying basically same thing as Debka on this

Posted by Frank G 2003-11-20 2:00:08 PM|| 2003-11-20 2:00:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I believe, that in a very terrible way, good will come of the recent SA, Turkey, and now Israel attacks through Jordan. Governments in that area are now faced with the facts that their own countries are infested with this terrorist disease. The Israeli's problem with terrorists have been a ho-hum issue to everyone else in the region because it has not hit their backyard, and its just Joooos, any way. Now these governments are going to have to deal with the problems or they will fall to the terrorist disease. I predict that they will flounder and do all kinds of things that do not address the issues. The smart ones will eventually get a clue, and the dumb ones, e.g. SA, will refuse to change fundamentally and will go down. OBL must be dead or indisposed, because the whole thing is going to soft targets in the middle east.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-11-20 2:12:26 PM|| 2003-11-20 2:12:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 No, they will just blame THE JOOOS and the United States for carrying out the attacks in those countries. Bet on it. "There is no way a muslim could have been responsible for this!" where have you heard THAT before?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-20 2:34:14 PM|| 2003-11-20 2:34:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Remember, folks. The next Guardian of the Holy Sites will be the ruling family of Jordan. The Sods only got it cause they beat these guys up pretty good in 1919 or so. The Crown of Jordan rests on the Bedu, and they are some tuff MoFo's. The King moves to Arabia, and, voila as the Frogs say, the Palestinians have a state.

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-11-20 3:16:25 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-11-20 3:16:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 John Loftus, of www.john-loftus.com, reported yesterday that this attack took place on Tuesday, and that the IDF had pulled the initial press reports. He also said that a couple of IDF soldiers were killed in a related gun battle (and cited the IDF website as a source). His sources said that this was definitely an al Qaeda attack, and that there is more to the story than is being reported.

Posted by Tibor 2003-11-20 3:23:33 PM|| 2003-11-20 3:23:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Just to contradict DEBKA .
The pilgrims were arriving from Jordan, to pass through Eilat on their way to Egypt.. That is was what we saw on the TV here and it was the same in the press. A small point I know.

Posted by Barry 2003-11-20 3:52:03 PM|| 2003-11-20 3:52:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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