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Amman Hotel Bombings: Israelis Evacuated Before Attack
(Argentina Indymedia, November 11, 2005)
According to the Israeli media, their citizens had been evacuated hours before the bombs went off, killing among others 3 members of a Chinese Defense delegation, and the Head of Palestine's intelligence service. . . . In the orchestrated bombings in the Jordanian capital Amman, also three officials of a Chinese Defense delegation were killed. Three adults which, their ages of 41, 43 and 44 notwithstanding, in many media now unjustly are described as university 'students'. In that case they must be very important 'students', because in the Chinese capital their sudden death - during a low profile visit - has led to the sending of an investigating 'working group' composed of officials from the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. - [http://tinyurl.com/7bt2o] . . . But also Maj. Gen. Bashir Nafeh, head of Palestinian military intelligence was a victim, with many more. . . . ISRAELI NATIONALS EVACUATED BEFORE THE ATTACKS - On the 10th of November the Los Angeles Times used this quote in an article: "The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Israelis staying at the Radisson on Wednesday had been evacuated before the attacks and escorted back home "apparently due to a specific security threat." . . . Amos N. Guiora, a former senior Israeli counter-terrorism official, said in a phone interview with The Times that sources in Israel had also told him about the pre-attack evacuations. . . . "The question that needs to be answered is why weren't the Jordanians working at the hotel similarly removed?" . . . Because anybody is able to see the changing of the story again: the Chinese have been turned into 'students'. The mainstream media report concerning the perpetrators* in the latest version that 'the blasts were caused by suspected suicide bombers.' . . . But earlier RTV reports quoting police and eyewitnesses were different: police sources among others told information service Reuters that ''the Radisson blast had been caused by a bomb placed in a false ceiling.'' - [http://tinyurl.com/bc34b] . . . The Foreign Ministry stated yesterday that no Israeli tourists are known to have been injured in the blasts. . . . Representatives of Israel's embassy in Amman were I 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 yesterday. . . . CNN reported an eyewitness saying the Jordanian prime minister's car was at the Grand Hyatt at the time of the blast. . . . Police said a second explosion hit the nearby Radisson SAS hotel, where about 250 people were attending a wedding reception. At least five were killed and at least 20 wounded in that blast, believed to have been caused by a bomb placed in a false ceiling, police sources at the scene told Reuters.

posted by LoZo 2:29 PM