Jordan Hotels Blitz Was An Inside Job

[BreakForNews]

If Al-Qaida didn't do it, who did?
Find out in our special investigation....

Jordan Hotels Blitz Was An Inside Job

http://www.breakfornews.com/articles/AmmanInsideJob.htm

BreakForNews.com, Friday 11/11/'05. Updated 14 Nov
Story by Fintan Dunne, Editor. Research by Kathy McMahon

The televised confession by an Iraqi woman who allegedly carried out the Amman bombings is reminiscent of the show trials in the old Soviet Union -and it's just about as unconvincing. What a sham!

Imagine a terrorist group so stupid that they announce a husband and wife team had been the bombers --and thus help Jordanian authorities identify the alleged female bomber.

On television, Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi's is seen wearing a white head scarf and a black gown with an explosives belt strapped around her waist. But she had supposedly been wearing bright party clothes on the bombing run. Clearly the video of her wearing the bomb belt was staged.

As staged as the rest of this tragic, war propaganda, Black Ops farce.

Adding to suspicions is that another alleged bomber, Safah Mohammed Ali, was briefly detained last year by U.S. military in Iraq; disapeared soon his release and only showed up as one of the alleged suicide bombers in Amman. Meaning, he could have been released to be picked up by Black Ops and kept on ice until now.

In any event, what real terror group could be so dumb as to glibly admit killing the many Palestinians who died in the attacks, and so dim-witted as to have conceived of staging such attacks in the first place? However, al-Qaida(TM), in the shape of the entirely fictional Musab al-Zarqawi, is proudly claiming a new victory.

That claim by al-Zarqawi is quite a feat. He's as dead as Osama. He lives on only in the press release department of the CIA's Middle East office.

But if Al-Qaida didn't do it, who did?

( --SNIP-- )


A PALESTINIAN PURGE

Our second irony also has a sting in the tail.

Former U.S. president Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton, along with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and the Quartet's special envoy to the Middle East, James Wolfensohn, on Saturday, 12th November attend the gala opening of "The American-Israeli Dialog" at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem.

It's the start of a week-long conference co-sponsored by the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institute in Washington, DC and the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.

That's ironic, because the Saban Center hosted another workshop back in November 2002. This one was an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue aimed at edging towards a 'Two State Solution'.

It was attended by Abed Alloun, head of Palestinian Preventive Security in the West Bank. Alloun also attended a November, 2003 meeting organized by UCLA’s Pentagon-funded Burkle Center for International Relations.

He won't be attending any future workshops. He was also killed in the same Hyatt Hotel lobby -just yards from where Rima Akkad Monla and her movie producer father were struck down.

He wasn't the only high-ranking Palestinian to die in that blast. Also killed were:

...the Chief of military intelligence in the West Bank and former head of the Palestinian Special Forces Major General Bashir Nafeh, the commercial attache of the Palestinian Embassy in Cairo Jihad Fatouh, and the deputy chairman of Cairo-Amman Bank in the Palestinian territories Mosab Khorma.

These were no lightweights.

In July, 2002 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat elevated then deputy chief of preventive security Bashir Nafe to replace his boss Jibril Rajoub. And Jihad Fatouh was the brother of Rawhi Fattouh, who served as interim Palestinian president after the death of Arafat.

Their deaths were a key political impact of the Amman blasts as they affected the Palestinian people, yet this news was tacked on as an afterthought by most mainstream world media --with the notable exception of the Chinese People's Daily.

That state outlet also carried the condolences of Chinese President, Hu Jintao --now on a three-day 'bilateral-relations' state visit to Germany.

The question again is, 'cui bono'?
Who benefits?

The answer is complex.


FALSE FLAG, RED FLAG, AND RED RAG

In matters of devious political maneuvering across the Middle East, the student of world events must take into account possible machinations of the Israeli Mossad. After all, the Israelis are alleged to have had some foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks and the London bombings of 7/7/2005.

So it was hardly a surprise to find them apparently aware of the Amman bombings in advance. In fact, it was perhaps rather predictable to read in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that:

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.... Israel's counter-terror headquarters yesterday recommended Israeli citizens not travel in Jordan.

And it was equally predictable to read just a day later that:

The groups of Israelis who were staying at the Jordanian hotels that were bombed on Wednesday were evacuated from the hotels immediately following the attacks, and not before they occurred, as Haaretz erroneously reported yesterday.

The only problem with all this facile interpretation of 9/11, London and Amman is the by now sheer predictability of the raising of suspicions about a so-called 'false flag' Israeli operation and the subsequent discounting of those concerns. And how come Israeli media can so reliably shoot themselves in the foot with all the relentless accuracy of Musab al-Zarqawi?

"Fool me once...", as one village idiot once tried to remark.

But fool me twice? Thrice?

No. This false-flag, red flag looks like yet another red rag to the bull of canned opinions.

Did Israel benefit from events in Amman? Certainly. But why hammer the point home? Why the smokescreen?

Who deliberately twirls this red Israeli cape in our faces, so deftly?

Once again. Cui bono?


HORROR AT THE HYATT

As we explore the Amman bombings, most accounts agree that it was the Grand Hyatt Hotel where the first blast took place. Not "at the entrance" -as many reports state. It was inside at a lobby bar.

The BBC's Caroline Hawley, describes the scene:

I was at the Hyatt hotel and had just ordered dinner. It was just before 9pm, so as you can imagine it was a very busy time for restaurants and bars across Amman, particularly in these kind of hotels that are frequented by Westerners. The bomb went off in a lobby-level bar crowded with customers. Suddenly we heard a massive explosion. I saw a ball of orange flames and I heard shattering glass and then people fled in panic. I didn't see what actually happened in the area which took the full force of the blast - we were actually one floor below where the bomb went off. It appears to have gone off in a restaurant bar on the lobby level on the ground floor. BBC

That location for the bomb is confirmed by other accounts:

"I was eating with friends in the restaurant next to the bar when I saw a huge ball of fire shoot up to the ceiling and then everything went black," a French UN official told Reuters news agency. "It caused absolute devastation." BBC

The lobby of the Hyatt is a vast multi-level space.

It's not just an entrance and exit from the hotel, it's also a meeting, relaxation and dining area for residents and guests.

There is at least one raised area surrounded by a low railing, to facilitate such planned or impromptu gatherings.

So there is every chance that the high-profile Palestinian victims were not simply accidentally caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, but were precisely where good intelligence information knew they would be. At the right place and the right time for a group assassination.

If that's the case, the Hyatt blast was the first and most important order of business, and the other subsequent blasts were secondary. (But not entirely irrelevant, as we shall see.)

Subsequent photos of a Jordanian forensics team in action show it was near such a railing that the bomb went off.

A photo sequence enables us to gauge the force and direction of the bomb blast. One of the main structural support pillars was badly damaged. The surface of the pillar was stripped off to a depth of inches in parts, and the scarred concrete underneath is pock-marked with deep impacts and gashes. <2nd Photo Also>

This was an extraordinarily powerful explosion.

Just how massive a blast it was is evident from this account by a Canadian guest at the hotel:

Cherryl Fisher is just happy to be alive. She was in the Grand Hyatt at the time of the bombing. She had just finished taking a swim in the hotel pool, when a bomb ripped through the lobby of the Grand Hyatt. "I was just heading back to my room and stopped at the desk to drop off my locker key when the wall next to me sort of imploded and crumbled," she says. Fisher was not hurt. She was on the other side of the hotel from where people were killed. CBC

This sounds and looks like a high-grade, high velocity military explosive in action.

Jordanian authorities are making the most of shotgun-pellet-sized ball bearings recovered, they say, from the scene of the blast. But if one was planning to make a blast look like a typical suicide-mission, then a sophisticated military device could easily be window-dressed with such low grade material.

Despite a great deal of unsourced reports of a suicide bomber, in the Hyatt, as in the other hotels, first-hand specific accounts of such bombers are elusive.

In any event, ball bearings were not needed for the efficacy of this device. It would kill all within close range by the sheer organ-liquefying force of it's blast pressure wave. Guaranteed. No matter what path any shrapnel took.

As a matter of interest, residents and guests in the hotel included many with links to rebuilding contracts in Iraq --ongoing or suspended . Like this unnamed individual:

"Shocked by the blast, survivors staggered out of the Grand Hyatt hotel. An American man blurted out in a thick Southern drawl: "My friends are dead." A soaked white-bed sheet, wet perhaps from the hotel's fire extinguishing system, wrapped his clothed frame like mummy cloths. "The people who carried out this attack are cowards," he said. Refusing to give his name, the man said that he had lived in the hotel for the past two years like many other Western contractors doing business in neighbouring Iraq. (People's Daily)

Given this, the Hyatt, like other Amman hotels, surely has its rat's nest of intelligence operatives who could facilitate the targeting of the Palestinian leaders. From a personal security point of view, that lobby was a potential killing zone. One into which a bomb could be delivered by means as varied as a personal briefcase or a staff serving trolley.

The rest is already history.

COLLATERAL DAMAGE AT THE RADISSON

Reports of a suicide bomber also accompanied accounts of events at the Radisson SAS Hotel --just a short distance from the Hyatt.

Minutes after the 'success' of the Hyatt blast, another bomb blast was to rock central Amman.

Most news photos showed the scene near the top of the wedding function room --where the main bridal party had been seated. It was a heart-rending depiction, but the big story was off to one side and looking upwards.

Because, mingled with those tales of a suicide bomber were reports of a quite different explanation for the massive blast:

Former Belfast Telegraph reporter Mary Fitzgerald was at the Hyatt and the Radisson shortly after both were hit, at around 8.50pm. "The Radisson blast was caused by a bomb placed in a false ceiling, but we don't yet know what caused the Hyatt blast.



This account of the cause also appeared on Reuters newswire, and was repeated on-air in BBC coverage of the events. That first Reuters story is just one sentence long:

Updated: 2:39 p.m. ET Nov. 9, 2005
AMMAN -The blast at the Radisson hotel was caused by a bomb placed in a false ceiling, police sources at the scene told Reuters.

But then, the police seemingly changed their story:

Police said the blasts were caused by suspected suicide bombers. Police sources earlier told Reuters the Radisson blast had been caused by a bomb placed in a false ceiling.

Later from Reuters stories dropped any mention of the earlier report of a bomb being in the false ceiling.

But photos from the scene make it quite clear why those early reports were correct.

The visible effects of the huge blast on the extensive ceiling area are obvious.



A bomb in the roof-space overhead, would go a long way to explaining the many head injuries described in the following report:

Suicide bomber brings death and destruction as newlyweds enter wedding party
By Rana Husseini, Thursday, November 10, 2005 Jordan Times

An employee at the hotel described to The Jordan Times the scene inside the hall after the blast. “I was inside the hall when all of a sudden I heard a loud explosion and the walls and the ceiling fell on our heads.”

“It was like a huge flash. One moment everything was normal and all of a sudden there was confusion and smoke with body parts lying all over the floor and a strong smell of burning plastic. “

Another shocked employee stood at the entrance of the hotel banging his head with his hands and repeating his colleague's name, who he said had died in the blast. “Yousef is dead. I saw a big gash in his head and he was just lying on the floor of the hall without moving. “I saw heads and body parts of men and women scattered all over the hall", said the 21-year-old hotel worker.

The death toll from the three explosions reached 57 according to government officials, who said the highest number of victims were from the Radisson SAS Hotel blast. Over 115 people were reported injured, many reportedly suffering from head wounds, according to a source at the Jordan Hospital.

The Jordan Times managed to gain entrance to the site of the blast and witnessed the devastation. A smell of burnt plastic permeated the room. The buffet area adjacent to the main hall was also partly destroyed.

And that smell of plastic could bethe high plastic content of the roof material being burned by the exploding device.

The scale and strength of the explosion can be also be judged from the volume of debris later being cleared by hotel staff.

Naturally, the cruel shattering of a bridal party's hopes, dreams and celebrations has attracted the most attention from the media. Photos and accounts of events at the Radisson have almost eclipsed the other two blasts.

Which was undoubtedly the purpose of the Radisson bomb. To help mask the deadly intent of the killing of the Palestinians. Once the Hyatt blast had taken place, it would have been easy to have triggered the second diversionary blast at will.

Leaving only one more bomb. But this last was no mere diversion.

Article Continues:
http://www.breakfornews.com/articles/AmmanInsideJob.htm

THE CHINA SYNDROME
CONCLUSION

See Also:
'CIA Fake' WhatReallyHappened Responds to our Amman Investigation
http://breakfornews.com/my/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=234&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

[Ian David]

1. This is from a bullshit anti-semitic conspiracy nut site. n/t

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"In matters of devious political maneuvering across the Middle East, the student of world events must take into account possible machinations of the Israeli Mossad. After all, the Israelis are alleged to have had some foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks and the London bombings of 7/7/2005."
http://www.breakfornews.com/articles/AmmanInsideJob.htm

Please take this trash elsewere.

[BreakForNews]

2. Bad Call - you should have read a few more sentences on....

Where we say:

The only problem with all this facile interpretation of 9/11, London and Amman is the by now sheer predictability of the raising of suspicions about a so-called 'false flag' Israeli operation and the subsequent discounting of those concerns. And how come Israeli media can so reliably shoot themselves in the foot with all the relentless accuracy of Musab al-Zarqawi?

Fool me once...", as one village idiot once tried to remark.

But fool me twice? Thrice?

No. This false-flag, red flag looks like yet another red rag to the bull of canned opinions.

So, it's not anti-semitic tinfoil after all.
Sorry to disappoint your knee-jerk response.

[Ian David]

3. I did read further along. It's full of allegations of Israeli complicity

[TomInTib]

4. Contrary to popular belief, the Israelis would never do anything

like this.
Oh yeah, and the USS Liberty never existed.

[Ian David]

5. Well, I'm adding two more people to my ignore list. n/t

[Coastie for Truth]

7. Thank you for your expert opinion on the USS Liberty

The Chief of Naval Intelligence screwed up Liberty - didn't tell the operating forces or the Israelis that Liberty was there, even denied that it was there. Chief of Naval Intelligence put out a cover story that the ship was a "false flagged Russian ship" and then another cover story that the ship was a "false flagged Egyptian troop carrier."

Then, just eight short months later the Chief of Naval Intelligence screwed up Pueblo the same way - didn't tell the operating forces, or the South Koreans or the Japanese that Pueblo was there.

The "truth" about Liberty is in both:
1. CAPT A. Jay Cristol, "The Liberty Incident"
2. CDR Lloyd Bucher, "Bucher:My Story"
and also alluded to in the report on Pueblo.

Why am I so concerned --

BECAUSE IN 1945 MY DAD'S "NAVAL INTELLIGENCE" RECON PBY CATALINA WAS LOST AT SEA - AND THE INTELLIGENCE TYPES SAID THAT HE AND HIS CREW WERE IN AUSTRALIA. IT WAS PURE SERENDIPITY - AND A GREATER FORCE - THAT HE AND HIS CREW WERE SIGHTED AND SAVED BY ANOTHER US SHIP -- THE INTELLIGENCE ASSHOLES SAID HE WAS IN AUSTRALIA ---UNTIL HE AND HIS CREW MADE IT BACK TO THE TENDER.

Quite frankly the Chief of Naval Intelligence lies to cover his butt. That is part of his job. The Chief of Naval Intelligence could have prevented this tragedy by either telling Israel's Military Attache in Washington or Commander, SIXTH Fleet, that Liberty was there - instead of concocting false flag stories (per CAPT A. Jay Cristol, "The Liberty Incident" and CDR Lloyd Bucher, "Bucher:My Story", and the Official United States Navy Report on Pueblo.)

Your interest is appreciated

"Coastie"
Lieutenant, United States Coast Guard (DD-214-CG)
"by direction"

[progressivebydesign]

6. The article does address ONE doubt I had...

The woman said that she and her husband "dressed for a party", that is a fact that she stated, but her clothing does not denote any type of party attire. AND.. how did they know to dress for a party? Who tipped them off that there was a wedding for them to insinuate themselves into??? The rest of the stuff is just beyond comprehension or comment. But the clothing thing did make me curious, as with the confession on television of this woman. Jordan is not a democracy apparently.

[Coastie for Truth]

8. Try this on for size--

Could it be US strategy? UK Strategy? Saudi strategy? (Yes, Saudi strategy). Or even the strategy of the "mineral interests" (Oil multi-nationals)?

You say "In matters of devious political maneuvering across the Middle East, the student of world events must take into account possible machinations of the Israeli Mossad. After all, the Israelis are alleged to have had some foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks and the London bombings of 7/7/2005". I say say that this group is just as likely to be funded by MI-6 or the KGB or British Petroleum, or Shell, or ExxonMobil, or TexacoChevron, or PhillipsConoco, or Halliburton, or Bechtel, or Carlyle. And the gunmen could be locals indirectly hired by Blackwater or Pinketron, or even "Bond, James Bond, 007."

I am not altogether facetious when I blame "British MI6" and "Bond, James Bond, 007" for these events. Borrowing a page from my paranoid Eastern European ancestors --

I have always bought into a William Engdahl ("A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order") and Sykes-Picot Agreement model -- i.e., keep the "small states" small, relatively weak (relative to the US, UK, France, Russia) and battling with each other. This keeps their collective attentions diverted from the real exploitation of their mineral wealth by their own autocratic rulers and by the US, British, and Dutch "interests."

From a classical Marxist analysis, the power elites (bourgeois) divert the attention of the proletariat from their exploitation by the bourgeois - e.g., by blaming an outside enemy (classically Orwellian) or by hijacking religion into the service of the bourgeois, an "opium of the people" to sanctify the exploitation, wars, laws and class divisions of the elites. See, e.g., What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America by Thomas Frank.

The data fits the Marxist Model, the Orwellian model, and Thomas Frank's model.

And to a point, this instability serves US, British, Saudi, and Big Oil interests. It is a simple, non-convoluted "fits the data" and explains the impact of PNAC and the NeoCons (Hint - Israel is tertiary to the PNAC/NeoCon boys - OIL is primary and secondary). If one reads the drivel of PNAC (not the blog - but the actual stuff) - it is all about control of the oil spigot. A "Greater Israel" is so far down on their list of priorities as to be a "throw away."

So, when I see the masses in the street (and on some web sites), psyched up to blame "Mossad" and "The Zionists" and "The Israelis" - I think "Probably more likely the CIA, MI6, the KGB, or Big Oil."

Que bono? Turmoil kills Israeli and Palestinian proletariat. But it diverts attention away from the failings of the House of Saud, and the exploitation by the outside mineral interests.

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[Colorado Blue]

10. GIVE ME A BREAK. Don't you guys EVER get tired of

jew baiting?

[undergroundrailroad]

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