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Specific Security Alert
The following is not from a fringe conspiration mongering website, but a Haaretz correspondent report.
Israelis evacuated from Amman hotel hours before bombings
A number of Israelis staying on Wednesday at the Radisson hotel 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 Wednesday that no Israeli tourists are known to have been injured in the blasts. Representatives of Israel’s embassy in Amman were in 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 Wednesday.
UPDATE (06:23am): Haaretz has changed its report now, but under the same URL so the old one is no longer available.
No truth to report of Israeli evacuations before Amman bombs
There is no truth to reports that Israelis staying at the Radisson SAS hotel in Amman on Wednesday were evacuated by Jordanian security forces before the bombing that took place there.
The Israelis were escorted back to Israel by Jordanian security personnel only after the attacks had taken place, contrary to earlier reports.
Juan Cole also linked to the original Haaretz report and wrote
.. it transpires that Jordanian security operatives came to the Radisson earlier in the day and escorted Israeli tourists from the hotel.
Aljazeera also refers to the original Haaretz report as does KUNA.
Now I am not sure what I am supposed to believe here. Did Haaretz screw up big time, or did they get a friendly phone call from their military censor?
Then this:
Of course Abu Musab ‘Goldstein’ al-Zarqawi is the prime suspect and Al-Qaida claimed responsibility and it is reported that his spokesman posted such on a website.
Now please folks – there is no anonymous website on the Internet. Any website can be tracked down, its traffic can be monitored and the physical location of the posters can be determined.
If one is prepared to do so, it can happen within minutes after something gets posted. I once helped to track down a blackmailer in such an operation. There was no chance we would not get him – so please.
If an Al-Qaeda operative posts something on an obviously known website, why isn´t he/she staring into a gun 10 minutes later?
There is a sameness about all these attacks that leads to numbness:
1) Vague or specific warnings, or rumors of warnings. Bibi (Netanyahou) was warned of the London bombing attacks and did not go close. (Attested to and admitted, see one link with one story.)
2) Ongoing security drills. Or at least the unusual presence of security, police, etc. Sometimes TV as well! Or even mysterious film makers, such as the vanishing French Naudet brothers (Fireman’s video, as it is called, of 9/11).
3) Bombs or blasts for which eyewitness reports (or very early press reports, sometimes even pictures – e.g. Bali) and final descriptions do not match. E.g. in the London bombings, it is said, some bombs were on the tracks.
4) No clear published descriptions of results of forensic analysis – only confusion. Stories vary: bombs detonated by hand, by cell phone, etc.
5) Very odd, slight, or even nonsensical, or subsequently debunked, announcements of authorship, only very rarely containing the regular threats (more will follow if….) and demands (we want..) – competely contrary to ‘terrorist’ MO. Often, a mysterious phone call, something published on an internet site, from a group ‘linked to Al Quaida’ is all that emerges.
5) Perps who are conveniently dead, but whose background or links to terrorism are never explained; or culprits who kill themselves (Madrid) or somehow conveniently escape or vanish, or are apparently never even identified (UN bombing in Baghdad) despite enquiries, etc. When profiles and identities are published, they often make very unconvincing terrorists. (e.g Ziad Jarrah, London) or are shown to have had known links with police, secret services, etc. (Madrid, Bin Laden.)
6) Court cases that either fizzle out for lack of evidence (Germany – the 9/11 ‘cell’), or are obviously show trials, with the accused high as a kite and pleading guilty but unable to give details (Bali), or are stalled for ever (Moussaoui). Finally, some culprits are charged, judged, and jailed, but nobody bothers about when they are released, and that often happens speedily (e.g. Mohamed Ali, prosecuted by Fitz for the US Embassy bombings in Africa, a free man today, I have read.) Sometimes the accused are not individuals but a group, a ‘regime’ and the detective work is laughable (Mehlis report, Syria).
7) No follow up. Story dies: nothing to see here, move along. Even the commemorative ceremonies seem to lack sincerity – have a weird quality (e.g. ceremonies at the Pentagon, which hardly mentioned the victims; folk concerts or whatever it was for 9/11, etc.)
8) No analysis, few serious books. No post mortems. No statements by terrorist movements. No repenting terrorists who tell all and marry and have 5 kids. Nothing. Silence.
9) White vans!
All this is now accepted as the ‘script’ for terrorist attacks.
Globalisation isn’t just about textiles, tee shirts and underpants.
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Posted by: Noisette | Nov 10 2005 17:27 utc | 16
Noisette – Jordan had Mossad written all over it, and sure, the bomber may have spoken in Iraqi, maybe believing through his handlers, he was striking at SoS Rice’s wedding party(?!).
The mind is a terrible thing when it’s wasted.
I mean, these poor slobs are being shanghaid into gulags around the world, then tortured and their families robbed and raped. When some Mossad/CIA ops wants to take out a Palestinian intel chief, they’re gonna bring in some bomber from Gitmo, how would we know, when the NAC boys are hoping this kind of Bushwhack s–t will put Cheney back on the happy-face side of “torture”.
Christ, when NASA is up for refunding, they play Apollo 13 six times a day on network TV. When the Dark Skies asteroid tracking program was up for refunding, Will Smith was playing in every major movie theatre. It’s 1984 in USA, forever.
1. Cheney needed a hall-pass on torture.
2. Bush needed a I-told-you-so on WOT.
3. And Mossad needed one dead PLO.
“Where’s that Iraqi guy we were brainwashing?”
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Sizemore – ‘name’ is being wise, but no avail. Everything you post, and your e-link to it, and your sysop IT address which reveals your dial-up phone number and then physical address, is there 24×7 online, under Patriot Act II.
If you piss-off billmon, he might even out you, (like he did to Lash Marks back in September, frog-marching him out of his place of work.)
If they wanted to take anyone blogging here out, there could be a sat-bomb ‘shake-and-bake’ down your chimney fifteen minutes after you posted,
or black vans of SWAT teams dragging you off to an Azherbizhan torture cell before your keyboard even began to cool.
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What Jordan is saying to US is, this Mossad/CIA dog has sharp teeth and a very, very long chain,
and the War in Iraq is the War Against Eurasia.
http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/3/
“Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one. At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.”
Posted by: sad;lg03 | Nov 11 2005 22:09 utc | 48
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