"Israelis evacuated before attack! What gives?"

Subject: Jeffrey Blanfort: "Israelis evacuated before attack! What gives?"
From: RePorterNoteBook@aol.com
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 07:48:57 EST

Famous Jewish-American writer Jeffrey Blanfort comments:
jblankfort@earthlink.net

How many coincidences can we take? First, Israelis at the Odigo message
center in Israel were warned in advance about the World Trade Center bombings,
according to both Ha'aretz and the Washington Post, and five Israelis who were
identified in the Forward as Mossad agents, working for a phony Mossad-owned
moving company were arrested while laughing and filming the destroyed buildings
from across the river in New Jersey. Then, the mainstream media reported that
Israeli officials acknowledged that Benjamin Netanyahu who was in London at the
time was warned not to go out minutes before the July 7 attack in the London
subway and now we have this. If indeed it is true, what gives?

Start:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/643691.html

Scores dead in three Amman hotel bombings; Israelis evacuated before attack
By Yoav Stern and Zohar Blumenkrantz

Nov. 10, 2005

Bombs rocked three hotels in Amman late last night, killing at least 57
people and wounding more than 115 in apparent suicide attacks. One of the hotels is
known to be popular with Israeli tourists.

"There were three terrorist attacks on the Grand Hyatt, Radisson SAS and Days
Inn hotels, and it is believed that the blasts were suicide bombings," police
spokesman Major Bashir al-Da'aja told The Associated Press. He declined to
elaborate.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks.

A police official said the attacks were simultaneous and hit minutes before 9
P.M. in two districts in the Jordanian capital, including the commercial area
of Jebel Amman and Al-Rabiyeh, which houses the Israeli Embassy.

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.

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.

Israel's counter-terror headquarters yesterday recommended Israeli citizens
not travel in Jordan. Travel recommendations regarding Jordan were tightened a
few months ago, but many Israelis still visit the country. Many also visit
other regions such as the Jordanian Arava and the ancient city of Petra.

The first bomber, at 8:50 P.M. local time, struck the Grand Hyatt, completely
shattering the stone entrance. An AP reporter saw at least seven bodies
removed from the hotel and many more wounded carried out on stretchers.
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.

The Radisson, in particular, is popular with Israeli tourists and was a
target of several foiled Al-Qaida plots in the past.

Police also reported a third explosion at the Days Inn Hotel in Amman. There
were also casualties at that hotel.

"The attacks carry the trademark of Al-Qaida," one police official said on
condition of anonymity in line with police regulations. "However, it is not
certain. We are investigating."

Ayman al-Safadi, editor of Jordan's Al-Ghad newspaper, told the Al-Arabiya
satellite network that it was a "terrorist operation."

"Finally, the terrorists succeeded in breaking the security in Jordan," he
said, referring to past success in foiling many terror plots.

Jordan's King Abdullah II condemned the attack, saying, "Justice will pursue
the criminals" behind the Amman suicide attacks, CNN reported. Abdullah, who
was on an official visit to Kazakhstan, cut short his trip and was returning
home last night.

The Grand Hyatt and Radisson SAS hotels, in the commercial Jebel Amman
district, are located about one kilometer apart and are frequented by American and
European businessmen and diplomats. The Days Inn is located three kilometers
away.

An American businessman who was at the Grand Hyatt when the explosion
occurred said a "bomb that went off in the lobby." He declined to identify himself.

"It was a miracle that we made it out with a scratch," said a British guest
at the Grand Hyatt.
"We thought it was fireworks for the wedding but I saw people falling to the
ground," said Ahmed, a wedding guest at the

Radisson who did not give his surname. "I saw blood. There were people
killed. It was ugly."

Jordan, a key ally of both the United States and Israel, had largely escaped
the terror attacks that have hit other parts of the Middle East, and its
sleepy capital, Amman, is viewed as a haven of stability in the region.

But Jordan has not been entirely immune: On Aug. 19, militants fired three
Katyusha rockets at a U.S. Navy ship docked at the Red Sea resort of Aqaba,
narrowly missing it and killing a Jordanian soldier.

Jordanian officials blamed that attack on Al-Qaida in Iraq, and there have
been growing worries that the violence in Iraq could spill over into Jordan,
where many Iraqi exiles have taken refuge from the violence.

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