Amman Bombings: More Suspicious Details

Amman Bombings: More Suspicious Details
By Kurt Nimmo
November 15, 2005
Another Day in the Empire


A story appearing on the CBC World News website this afternoon reveals
additional details about the Amman hotel bombings and shoots a big hole
in the official story, as pimped by the corporate media. A security
official, who will likely be demoted if his identity is revealed, told
the Associated Press that "lights in sections of both the Radisson and
Hyatt hotels went out just before the near simultaneous blasts
in—apparent—co-ordinated fashion…. A DJ at the Radisson, where a
Jordanian-Palestinian wedding reception was bombed, also recalled how
the ballroom where the party was being held mysteriously descended into
darkness. 'The lights at the wedding hall went off seconds, maybe just
one second, before the blast, although there was electricity outside
the room in the corridor, the nearby lobby area and the reception,’
Fadi al-Kessi told The AP. 'For some reason, I looked to my right in
the darkness and saw what looked liked lightening, then there was a
loud boom. It felt like the explosion came from the ceiling, then
people started running out,’" notes the AP. (Emphasis added.)

So here we have an eye witness confirming the photographic
evidence—the explosion occurred above hotel drop ceilings. It also
appears somebody deliberately switched off the lights, although we are
told all the terrorists, with the exception of Sajida Mubarak
al-Rishawi, died in the blasts. No explanation is provided how the
suicide terrorists managed to accomplish this feat. No doubt these two
details will find their way to the memory hole soon enough—or a lame
explanation will be dreamed up and provided to the corporate media.

If we are to believe other details subsequently added to the official
story, the Hyatt bomber, said to be Rawad Jassem Mohammed, "sized up
American-Syrian movie producer Mustapha Akkad [who produced all of the
Halloween movies] at a hotel coffee shop before going to a toilet with
another Iraqi man to don his suicide belt, a security official close to
the investigation said…. Mohammed returned minutes later, the bulkiness
of his bomb under his clothes apparent and walking with difficulty,
before blowing himself up near Akkad and his daughter, Rima, the
official cited eyewitnesses as saying," News24 reports. It is inferred
here that Mohammed either recognized Akkad—unlikely for an Iraqi from a
rural area (that is unless Akkad was pointed out to Mohammed, possibly
by his intelligence handler)—or simply targeted him because he was an
American (although Akkad was born in Syria, he came to America in
1950).

It is now obvious the Amman hotel bombings were a black op executed by
Mossad, British intelligence, or the American military, or it was a
collaborative effort of all three (suspicion, however, falls on the
Israelis, since they have plenty of experience with these sort of
operations, from the Lavon Affair in the early 50s onward). Although we
are told by the Bush echo chamber corporate media this was an
al-Zarqawi terrorist event—specifically targeted at Jews and the
Jordanian government—the fact is the targets consisted of affluent Arab
wedding guests, Palestinian officials, a delegation of Chinese military
officials, and an Arab-American movie producer. It appears Akkad, a
more or less well-known American, was specifically targeted (he was
"sized up" by Mohammed), thus sensationalizing the attack (few here in
America seem to care when poor Iraqis or Arabs are the victims of such
attacks). It cannot be disputed—although the American corporate media
can ignore—the fact the bombs were placed in the ceiling. If indeed
Rawad Jassem Mohammed and his cohorts were present, they did not carry
bombs (it is possible they were strapped with belts they believed
contained explosives). Sajida Mubarak al-Rishawi is little more than a
malleable patsy thrown in the mix to add a further and frightening
dimension to the Arab terrorist archetype—now we cannot trust Arab
women (again, a detail engineered previously by the Israelis; consider
Hanadi Tayseer Jaradat and other Palestinian female bombers profiled on
this page).

Not surprisingly, in the wake of the Amman terrorist bombing black op,
the Jordanian police indicate they will "harness state-of-the-art
electronic surveillance technology" in banks (and likely elsewhere) and
also implement "tough new security rules," including "a demand that
citizens report the identities of any foreigners renting flats or
houses," according the News24, thus tightening the noose of the
Jordanian police state further. All of this, as well, will get
Americans incrementally accustomed to the idea that in order to prevent
(fake) terrorist attacks, we may soon be required to hack up the Bill
of Rights further (by passing Patriot II, the sequel) and pave the way
for more police state tactics and technology.


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