CNN is reporting big explosion in Amman, Jordan

[IndianaGreen]

near intelligence center.

[IndianaGreen]

1. MSNBC: explosion near Jordanian Intelligence Service building

Don't know if it could be gas explosion.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Oh shit

It just keeps getting better. :sarcasm:

[IndianaGreen]

3. MSNBC: Jordan says explosion is not terror related

Let's return to our regular programming.

[Jeanette in FL]

5. How are they always so quick to determine that

Even if it is a gas explosion, how do they know that it was not tampered with. I could never understand how they can determine that so quickly.

[Libby2]

9. I always wonder that too.

[elehhhhna]

14. Becasue Darth Cheney didn't "predict' it?

[IndianaGreen]

4. MSNBC: Unable to say what caused the explosion

or to get additional info from official denial that it is not terror related.

I thought this story was over and done with!

[Nikki Stone 1]

6. They haven't had time to actually figure it out.

Jordan just wants to stay out of things, and I don't blame them.

[me b zola]

7. I wonder who may be trying to draw them in

...and their intelligence center? Things that make you go hmmm.

[Nikki Stone 1]

11. That is a good question

I don't think Israel or the US wants them involved. This attack on Lebanon seems to be a way to pull in Iran, while Israel picks up a water supply as a bonus for their trouble. Jordanian involvement would just complicate things.

The only thing that does make sense is that some internal faction (PLO?) , perhaps at the behest of Iran, is trying to pull Jordan in to make for a distraction. If I were Iran, I would be doing everything I could to stay out of things directly and let proxies do my fighting for me. This way, I could have plausible deniability but tire out my enemy, especially as one of them goes into a crucial midterm election.

[IndianaGreen]

8. MSNBC's Jordanian reporter: not terrorism but a "criminal action"

Now I am truly confused. The explosion was actually at the intelligence service, but it is not terror related but a "criminal action."

I am still waiting for a link...

[Nikki Stone 1]

12. Criminal action = "internal" with no international implications

Jordan is not getting pulled in.

[allemand]

10. Several people hurt in explosion in Amman apartment building (AP)

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/ShTickers.html

[spanone]

13. This is the Bush* 'New Middle-East'. Things are just swell.

[rucky]

15. The road map to hell.