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	2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		March 16 - Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, accused of the bombing of the Air India Flight 182 in 1985, are found not guilty on all counts.
		It is the thirteenth hurricane of 2005, breaking the 1969 record of 12 hurricanes.
		December 22 - The U.S. Census Bureau releases its population estimates for 2005.
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	Who profited from Amman bombings?
		In the wake of recent bomb attacks targeting three hotels in the Jordanian capital Amman, the corporate media attempted to shape events to the liking of the Bushcons and the Israelis.
		Same day the bombings occurred, Reuters news agency said explosives were "placed in a false ceiling" of the Radisson hotel, hinting at the possibility that the attackers, now said to be Iraqis, would have required serious cover of the sort enjoyed by a state intelligence service working in tandem with Jordanian intelligence.
		Uruknet suggests that Amman’s attacks were carried out by seasoned experts, particularly from Mossad, with the complicity of Jordan’s intelligence and America’s CIA, in an attempt to shift the support from average Sunni Jordanians for the Sunni resistance in Iraq.
	www.infowars.com /articles/terror/amman_hotel_bombing_who_profited.htm (578 words)

	Hotel Bombings in Jordan Fuel Anger at Exiles
		AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 11 -- The dust-up in the Dungeon video arcade began when a group of Jordanian teenagers cursed aloud about television reports that at least one of the suicide bombings that shook this city Wednesday was carried out by an Iraqi.
		As new details emerged Friday about the bombings of three hotels that killed nearly 60 people, tension appeared to be mounting between Jordanians and the Iraqis who have streamed into this country by the thousands in recent years, Amman residents said.
		After it was reported that a suicide bombing that killed 125 people in the Iraqi city of Hilla on Feb. 28 was carried out by a Jordanian, large demonstrations ensued in Baghdad and the countries recalled top diplomats from their respective capitals.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/11/AR2005111100362.html (1061 words)

	2005 - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		May 10 - A hand grenade ostensibly thrown by Vladimir Arutinian lands about 100 feet (30 m) from United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
		Metal Gear Solid (videogame): In February of 2005, during a training mission on Shadow Moses, a nuclear weapons facility on a remote island off the coast of Alaska, the Next-Generation Special Forces unit rebels against the United States government, led by the covert fl ops team FOXHOUND.
		In the.hack universe, the internet is shut down due to a widespread virus on December 24 2005.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/2005 (6753 words)

	Jordan - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On November 9, 2005, Jordan experienced three simultaneous bombings at hotels in Amman.
		Major cities include the capital Amman in the northwest, Irbid and Az Zarqa, both in the north.
		Following the Sharm-al-Sheik Summit in Egypt on 8 February 2005, both countries announced plans to return ambassadors to the country.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Jordan (2815 words)

	Jordan bombings: several arrests made - World - smh.com.au
		Until late yesterday, Amman - a comfortable, hilly city of white stone villas and glitzy high-rises - had mostly avoided large-scale attacks and was a welcome sanctuary of stability in a troubled region.
		His group also is accused of previously trying to blow up the Radisson SAS in Amman as part of the so-called Millennium plot in 1999 and of the August attack at the Jordanian port of Aqaba.
		In Amman, a security official said authorities had tips on suspects who are being hunted, including possible sleeper cells or individuals who may have assisted the attackers and later fled in a vehicle bearing Iraqi licence plates.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/jordan-bombings-several-arrests-made/2005/11/11/1131578196878.html (1351 words)

	NPR : Grief Turns to Anger in Jordan's Capital
		November 11, 2005 · Merissa Khurma works at the Embassy of Jordan in Washington, D.C., and her family was directly affected by this week's terrorist bombings in Amman.
		November 11, 2005 · The human toll of Wednesday's suicide bombings in the Jordanian capital of Amman continues to strike an angry chord across the Mideast nation.
		The most tragic of the three bombings occurred at a wedding reception -- Ashraf and Nadia were married that day, and they had just gone to one of Amman's glitziest hotels for the party when the bomber struck.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5008142 (822 words)

	Zarqawi's Amman Bombings: Jordan's 9/11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The woman’s bomb failed to explode, and she was later captured after al-Qaeda’s statement claiming responsibility for the atrocity alerted Jordanian authorities to her participation.
		But the Amman bombings, which slaughtered dozens of Jordanian men, women, and children who were celebrating a wedding, have outraged Jordanians of all stripes.
		Zarqawi’s cold-blooded attacks in Amman may be a turning point in the war against terrorism, inoculating impressionable young Muslims in Jordan and elsewhere against the virus of Islamic extremism.
	www.heritage.org /Research/MiddleEast/wm919.cfm (1061 words)

	LexisNexis News - Latest News from over 4,000 sources, including newspapers, tv transcripts, wire services, magazines, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		EVEN before rescue workers had arrived on the scene of last night's deadly bombings in Amman, the authorities in Jordan were pointing the finger at one of their own countrymen, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
		Jordanian authorities are assigning blame for the bombings in Amman to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda connection, which is notorious for executing simultaneous attacks minutes apart.
		AMMAN - Terrorists succeeded in hitting Jordan's capital for the first time Wednesday night as three nearly simultaneous explosions rocked three Western hotel chains in Amman killing at least 53 peop...
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	Amman Hotel Bombings: Israelis Evacuated Before Attack : Argentina Indymedia (( i )) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		FPF - Nov. 11th - 2005 - In the orchestrated bombings in the Jordanian capital Amman, also three officials of a Chinese Defense delegation were killed.
		Representatives of Israel's embassy in Amman were I contact with local authorities to examine any report of injured Israelis, but none were received.
		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.
	argentina.indymedia.org /news/2005/11/347886.php (1233 words)

	Middle East and North Africa
		In 2005, for a third year in a row, the United States co-sponsored and actively supported a resolution that passed in the UN General Assembly’s 60th Plenary condemning the human rights situation in Iran.
		Over a dozen car bombs in 2005 targeted reform leaders and the general population, resulting in scores of deaths and injuries.
		Throughout 2005, the PA conducted a series of vigorously competed municipal elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, marking the first local council elections since 1976 and drawing a large voter turnout.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/shrd/2005/63947.htm (19326 words)

	CBC News: Iraqis involved in Amman blasts: al-Qaeda
		Four Iraqis, including a husband and wife team, were responsible for the bombings at three hotels in Jordan, according to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
		The extremist group's first message had called Amman a "backyard garden" for the "Crusader army," as well as a haven for Jews, "a filthy place" and "a centre for prostitution." A later message said the attacks were aimed at hotels that had become launching pads for the war against Islam.
		She was heading back to her room and was by the front desk when the wall next to her "imploded and crumbled," she said.
	cbc.ca /story/world/national/2005/11/11/jordan_blasts051111.html?... (811 words)

	Special Dispatch Series - No. 1043
		"The leaders of infidels in Amman should know that the protective wall that was built for the Jews to the east of the Jordan [River], and the rear base [that was established] for the armies of the Crusaders and of the government of the descendents of Ibn Al-Alqami [i.e.
		As for Hyatt Amman, it is a den [of evil] for the Zionist, American, and Iraqi intelligence [apparatuses]...
		The chemical bomb and the poisons [mentioned] are an invention of the evil Jordanian [security] apparatuses, as clearly evident from the torture marks that could be seen on the hands and face of brother [Al-Jayusi].
	memri.org /bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP104305 (3672 words)

	The Iraqi insurgency goes global. By Daniel Benjamin
		According to Roger Davies, the former head bomb technician for the British army in Northern Ireland, Saudi jihadists traditionally relied on bombs using ammonium nitrate and aluminum.
		However, in an early 2004 car bombing at the Interior Ministry, home of the kingdom's counterterrorism operations, the terrorists used artillery shells as the core of the bomb, just as is typical in Iraq.
		Jordan is also a juicy target because Amman has a relationship with Washington that is probably closer than that of any other Arab country, and, compounding its "apostasy" in the eyes of its opponents, it has signed a peace treaty with Israel.
	www.slate.com /id/2130133 (1289 words)

	Search: Amman - FOX News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Amman and tributaries run through Amman, but are since long absorbed by...
		Photographs taken in Amman, capital of Jordan, in 1995.
		AMMAN - Underscoring the continuing security and anti-terrorism partnership between Jordan and the United States...
	search.foxnews.com /_1_2YEHTLO04IOEYW7__info.foxnws/search/web/Amman (503 words)

	KATV Channel 7 - Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Since last week's deadly hotel bombings, metal detectors have been erected at restaurants and shopping centers, and body searches and ID checks have become routine.
		Three "non-Jordanian" suicide bombers belonging to al-Qaida in Iraq carried out Amman's triple hotel attacks that killed at least 57 people, Jordan's deputy premier said Saturday in this kingdom's first confirmation of the terror group's role.
		Hundreds of angry Jordanians rallied Thursday outside one of three U.S.-based hotels attacked by suicide bombers, shouting, "Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!" after the terrorist's group claimed responsibility for the blasts that killed at least 56 people.
	www.katv.com /search.hrb?s=ns&k=jordanians (297 words)

	Amman Bombings: More Suspicious Details
		A DJ at the Radisson, where a Jordanian-Palestinian wedding reception was bombed, also recalled how the ballroom where the party was being held mysteriously descended into darkness.
		Mohammed returned minutes later, the bulkiness of his bomb under his clothes apparent and walking with difficulty, before blowing himself up near Akkad and his daughter, Rima, the official cited eyewitnesses as saying,” News24 reports.
		It is inferred here that Mohammed either recognized Akkad—unlikely for an Iraqi from a rural area (that is unless Akkad was pointed out to Mohammed, possibly by his intelligence handler)—or simply targeted him because he was an American (although Akkad was born in Syria, he came to America in 1950).
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/november2005/161105bombings.htm (621 words)

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		The accounts given by those with whom the AP spoke suggest that at least two others involved in the attacks were in the hotels at the time of the blasts.
		Members of the prominent Arabiyat family, centered in the town of Salt, 17 miles northeast of Amman, are known to have fought alongside the insurgency in Iraq.
		Akkad and his daughter and at least seven hotel employees were killed in the suicide bombing.
	www.black-iris.com /?p=113 (1847 words)

	Mental mayhem: Jordan's Radisson SAS issues statement on bombing
		AMMAN - A blast at the Radisson hotel in the Jordanian capital Amman on Wednesday was caused by a bomb placed in a false ceiling, police sources at the scene told Reuters.
		The ceiling bomb report popped out in the early hours after the attack and the date of the story referenced here is 9 November; it's old.
		When your hotel is bombed, I would think you could come up with a better statement than correcting the reason why the bombers bombed your hotel.
	www.mentalmayhem.org /mental_mayhem/2005/11/press_release_f.html (2225 words)

	Jordan: Iraqi Woman Confesses To Taking Part In Deadly Suicide Attacks - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY
		Prague, 14 November 2005 (RFE/RL) -- In her television confession, Sajida al-Rishawi -- wearing what appeared to be a disarmed bomb belt -- confirmed what Jordanian authorities have been keen to stress since the triple suicide attacks of 9 November.
		The three suicide bombers in Amman were not disgruntled locals who sympathized with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq.
		Yesterday, a silent demonstration in Amman was led by a woman wearing a fl bridal dress to symbolize the country's pain over the killings.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/11/de3b7067-e4b4-4bcf-bc0b-ed8f6c357842.aspx?rapage=1 (982 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| From Our Own Correspondent \| 'Kingdom of boredom' no more
		Sure enough, the BBC's Baghdad Correspondent, Caroline Hawley, was in Amman on her way back to Iraq when it all happened.
		And they are ruled over by a king who is best buddy of Britain and the United States, and his lovely wife, who is a favourite on the fashion pages of the glossy magazines.
		The other, slightly bizarre thing, perhaps, is that the al-Qaeda offshoot group that said it carried out the bombings seems to have been genuinely surprised by the reaction - as if it somehow thought the people of Jordan might welcome having a few dozen of their citizens blown to pieces.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4430972.stm (991 words)

	Informed Comment
		He had stopped in Amman with Colonel Abed Allun, a high-ranking security official, and Rawhi Futtah, the commercial attache at the Palestinian Embassy in Egypt and brother of the speaker in the Palestinian parliament.
		As Amman becomes a forward staging ground for all sorts of US and Iraqi government meetings and planning, it becames a target for the Iraqi guerrilla movement.
		Telhami, having said that he believed that the rallying effect of the bombings would be short lived, went on to say that Abdullah was in serious trouble.
	www.juancole.com /2005/11/al-qaeda-in-iraq-claims-jordan.html (1206 words)

	Amman bombings disillusion al-Qaida sympathizers
		Amman - Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi did himself a disservice by ordering last week's suicide bombings at three Western hotels in Amman.
		For 64 per cent of the respondents, the bombings had changed their opinion of the group for the worse.
		Iraqi taxi drivers who shuttle daily between Baghdad and Amman say their Iraqi passengers are not harassed at the border.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /middleeast/article_1062856.php/Amman_bombings_disillusion_al-Qaida_sympathizers (862 words)

	Crossroads Arabia » Amman Bombings Updated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Saudi papers have not yet published editorials on last night's bombings in Amman.
		John Burgess recently lost an acquaintance in the bombings in Jordan.
		Akkad has died in hospital from wounds sustained in the hotel bomb attacks in Jordan.
	xrdarabia.org /blog/archives/2005/11/12/amman-bombings (643 words)

	Boing Boing: Jordanian bloggers covering Amman bombings
		On Harvard's Global Voices, live coverage from Jordanian bloggers on the events that occured tonight in Amman.
		Three explosions hit Jordanian capital Amman Wednesday night; one in Radisson SAS, the second in Hyatt Amman, and the third in Days Inn.
		Al-Arabia also confirms that a fire was started earlier last night in Amman in order to divert attention from the incident about to occur.
	www.boingboing.net /2005/11/09/jordanian_bloggers_c.html (282 words)

	CIRCUS.it : Voci e notizie dalla rete
		Suicide Bombings Killed 54 People in Amman Hotels last week, provoking outrage in Jordan despite the high level of support in the country for the activities of the Jordanian-born Zarqawi in Iraq.
		18 November 2005 (Amman Bombings were not suicidal) More evidence That the Amman Bombings were not suicide Bombings And That the official story is a lie.
		Amman (Reuters) - Jordan's security forces Are questioning the Jordanian relatives of an Iraqi woman Who took part in last week's triple suicide Bombings That Killed 54 People in Amman Hotels, security sources said on Wednesday.
	www.circus.it /index.php?r=82 (812 words)

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