Amman Under Attack

Image Courtesy of BBC

It seems after the attacks on Jordan no one is safe from the wrath of the ever so mighty Qaeda. It’s becoming more apparent that as time goes on, Al Qaeda is becoming more and more blood thirsty. This can be seen from the everyday bombings happening in Iraq, killing mostly civilians.

According to the Al Qaeda’s “press release” the reason the hotels were targeted is because “the hotels were used by the American and Israeli intelligence” to “plan against the mujahideen in Iraq.” So what they’re saying is that Al-Qaeda has such good intelligence that they know about secret and covert missions run by the Israeli/American intelligence. Naturally, the way to respond to this would be to bomb the hotels, and kill those CIA operatives…. Or maybe not. Perhaps killing civilians is much more significant. Civilians that have the same religion as the one Al Qaeda is using as an excuse to launch their dirty attacks. Civilians that sympathise with Palestinians, and Iraqi people. Civilians that cursed the US invasion of Iraq. Civilians that were getting wed that night…

If Al Qaeda had such good knowledge of CIA operatives’ movements, then why didn’t they plant bombs in the rooms of these operative? I’ll tell you why, the people who planned this had no political objective, and no intelligence (both meanings of the word). The main objective behind this attack was to spread fear and satisfy the blood thirsty appetite.

Let’s stop for a second and analyze a consequence of these attacks. Jordan will now lose a big portion of their tourism income. This will in turn affect the Jordanian citizens, who ultimately Al Qaeda is claiming to protect from the “evil forces.” Or how about the loss of the famous Syrian Hollywood director, Moustapha Akkad? Who ironically enough, directed two great movies one about the Prophet Mohamed, and another telling the story of Omar Mukhtar, a Libyan leader who fought the Italian occupation of Libya.

So what is there to conclude from all of this?

1. No matter what Al Qaeda does, the victims are always innocent civilians.

2. There’s no thought process behind any of their attacks, other than how to carry out the attack correctly.

3. Al Qaeda tries to spread their message through fear.

4. Al Qaeda has no message

5. You never know where the next attack could be, no place seems to be out of bounds for them

6. Al Qaeda will continue to carry out attacks in a random and sporadic manner

Lastly, I would like to send out my condolences to all families who lost someone in the Amman attacks.

P.S I found this stat pretty interesting, it goes to prove my point

Those Killed in the bombings:
33 Jordanians
6 Iraqis
4 Palestinians
2 Bahrainis
1 Saudi
1 American
1 Syrian-born American
1 Indonesian
2 Chinese

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