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Amman :

The Jordanian government has given the names of three Iraqi men and an Iraqi woman who took part in the suicide attacks against luxury hotels in Amman.

Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Al Muasher said the woman, who failed to blow herself up and is now in custody, is the wife of one of the attackers and the sister of a lieutenant of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaida in Iraq.

Muasher identified the three Iraqi bombers who died in the attack as Ali Hussein Ali Al Shamari, from Anbar; Rawad Jassem Mohammad Abed, 23; and Safaa Mohammad Ali, 23.

Al Shamari’s wife was identified as Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, 35, the sister the slain former militant Mubarak Atrous Al Rishawi.

Muasher said the woman accompanied her husband into a wedding hall in one of the hotels and that when her suicide belt failed to blow up the husband pushed her outside before detonating himself.

He showed pictures of the explosives belt worn by the woman, which he said show “the metal balls that were also attached to the belt so that they can inflict the largest number of casualties.”

Muasher told a news conference on Sunday that the attackers entered Jordan four days before Wednesday’s near-simultaneous attacks.

Iraq’s Al Qaida, led by Jordanian-born Zarqawi, has claimed responsibility for the blasts that killed 57 people at three hotels in Amman.

It said in an Internet statement that a married couple and two other men - all Iraqis - had carried out the attacks.

On Saturday, Muasher said the attackers were three males, but rejected speculation that a woman had been among them.

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I don’t want to know what will happen to her. I wish she was never born.

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Ammar, unlike many of us wasn’t surprised at all. He is not afraid and will continue going everywhere. What he said, though very simple was surprisingly comforting, probably because it made sense.I personally liked what he said, and decided to share with you all:

“The event did not take in a surprise; to be pragmatic, it was an eminent event, most security services were expected it, but did not know when. In the last two years, all parking lot near and under hotels were closed. A Police car is always at the entrance of each hotel.

Remember once President Bush said, you are either with us, or with them!!!

Jordan is in a such a difficult situation, if I were a kind, I have to take critical and difficult decision based on the following

Jordan is a country with little resource

Jordan is a country with the longest boarder with Israel

Jordan is a country with no water

Jordan is a country close to affluent gulf

Jordan people are ambitious and look for better life

Jordan people are fairly intellectual and politically inclined

a good percentage of Jordanian live below poverty line (below 130 JD a month)

Jordan government received lots of Aids from the west (US in particular)

With all of the above, we, the people, are looking and ambitious for better standards of living. Ie looking for economic growth.

Can we attain the economic growth all by ourselves? Unfortunately not!

In the first gulf war, and due to our political stand, we paid a high price; more than 300,000 lost their jobs in Kuwait and other gulf countries.

The US administration put the Jordanian government in a difficult situation again by deciding to invade Iraq. We had two options:

With them (approving the war / Bush side)

Against them (standing against the war/ Against Bush)

Against them means, all the American aids (bribes) from the US would stops

The relationship with the Kuwaiti and Saudi government would stop

The economic growth cannot be sustained

Poverty would become more severe

With them means

More foreign Aid

Pouring investment from Gulf States in Jordan

Safe haven for affluent Iraqis

And as a result good economic growth

The second choice was taken and as a result, Jordan witnessed a remarkable growth

The fact that the Government of Jordan choose to be (With them) led some look at Jordan as a close ally of the American. Also there were rumors during the war that Jordan allowed the US army to use its facilities in the eastern desert of Jordan.

Anyway,, since all of that was going on in the minds of some people, they just to show that they still can cause harm outside Iraq against anyone having relationships with the Americans; and they leave a signature (like what took place in London) 3 bombs

That is why I say, that It was all expected, but the question was WHEN?.

There is a price for each option, an English proverb says : There no thing as a free dinner

Therefore, I do not thing that people should make a big issue out of it,, ignoring it is really better than making a media fuss.

There are reason inside Jordan that cause life lost and such reason cause causalities that far exceeds what happened.

Do you know that there is one loss of life every 11 hours due to traffic accidents? I think this is terror, the crimes that take place when merchant cheat their product especially crops that is contaminated with all kinds of poisonous stuff reaching the stomachs of all population,, Water contamination, Pollution by cars that go by unpunished.

To summaries, we are living in a situation that needs us to deal and adapt to such situation, What happened in Jordan is expected in All arab countries. It will only end when a settlement is reach in both Palestine and Iraq, when the Americans get back to their senses and stop their aggression on Iraq. I personally believe that the American nourished Al – Qaeda and they are to be blamed for their activities.

I hope It would make you feel a little, a wise man once said: If I know everything, I can excuse all people for what we do! But we do not know everything.

I am not scared, in the office we continued working as usual, I will keep going every where, including Hotels and restaurants etc. when ever there is a need without giving it another thought.”

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