Israelis Evacuated - Bomb in False Ceiling

[Wokeman]

Scores dead in three Amman hotel bombings; Israelis evacuated before attack

By Yoav Stern and Zohar Blumenkrantz

Bombs rocked three hotels in Amman late last night, killing at least 57 people and wounding more than 115 in apparent suicide attacks. One of the hotels is known to be popular with Israeli tourists.

"There were three terrorist attacks on the Grand Hyatt, Radisson SAS and Days Inn hotels, and it is believed that the blasts were suicide bombings," police spokesman Major Bashir al-Da'aja told The Associated Press. He declined to elaborate.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks.

A police official said the attacks were simultaneous and hit minutes before 9 P.M. in two districts in the Jordanian capital, including the commercial area of Jebel Amman and Al-Rabiyeh, which houses the Israeli Embassy.

A number of Israelis staying yesterday at the Radisson SAS were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert. They were escorted back to Israel by security personnel.

The Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that no Israeli tourists are known to have been injured in the blasts. Representatives of Israel's embassy in Amman were I contact with local authorities to examine any report of injured Israelis, but none were received. There are often a number of Israeli businessman and tourists in Amman, including in the hotels hit yesterday.

Israel's counter-terror headquarters yesterday recommended Israeli citizens not travel in Jordan. Travel recommendations regarding Jordan were tightened a few months ago, but many Israelis still visit the country. Many also visit other regions such as the Jordanian Arava and the ancient city of Petra.

The first bomber, at 8:50 P.M. local time, struck the Grand Hyatt, completely shattering the stone entrance. An AP reporter saw at least seven bodies removed from the hotel and many more wounded carried out on stretchers.

CNN reported an eyewitness saying the Jordanian prime minister's car was at the Grand Hyatt at the time of the blast.

Police said a second explosion hit the nearby Radisson SAS hotel, where about 250 people were attending a wedding reception. At least five were killed and at least 20 wounded in that blast, believed to have been caused by a bomb placed in a false ceiling, police sources at the scene told Reuters....

[paul wright]

Thanks Wokeman
Israelis evacuated and the attack being claimed by dead guy Zarqawi and his ghost "Al Qaida in Iraq" phantasm a mere front for CIA, Mossad and SAS mercenaries. The same dead bloke they napalmed the civilians of Fallujah for
You develop an instinct for events, to separate the wheat from the chaff
The pre-evacuation of Israeli citizens is just confirmatory of the provenance

[brian]

Palestinian spy chief killed in blast

From: Agence France-Presse
November 10, 2005

THE head of the Palestinian intelligence services, Bashir Nafeh, was among those killed in a blast that shook a hotel in the Jordanian capital, a top Palestinian diplomat said.

"Bashir Nafeh was killed in the attack on the Grand Hyatt hotel," charge d'affaires Atallah Khairy said. -

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17199844-23109,00.html

[paul wright]

[brian]

This from The LA Times

--Amos N. Guiora, a former senior Israeli counter-terrorism official, said in a phone interview with The Times that sources in Israel had also told him about the pre-attack evacuations.

"It means there was excellent intelligence that this thing was going to happen," said Guiora, a former leader of the Israel Defense Forces who now heads the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. "The question that needs to be answered is why weren't the Jordanians working at the hotel similarly removed?" -

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bombings10nov10,0, 2022733.story?coll=la-home-world

[Ally]

Incredibly, at 6.30am today BBC R4 mentioned 'conspiracy theories' concerning Israeli involvement in this but then said were untrue because Al-CIAda had claimed responsibility.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9980123/

[Wokeman]

So that's alright, then!