Friday November 11th 2005, 4:44 pm
As
more details about the Amman bombings emerge, the corporate media has
gone into heavy-duty spin mode to shape events to the liking of the
Bushcons and the Israelis. For instance, on the day of the bombing
(November 9), Reuters
reported that the bombs at the Radisson were "placed in a false
ceiling," a rather difficult operation in a busy hotel and
demonstrating the fact the bombers, who we are now told are Iraqi
resistance fighters brainwashed by the dead cretin al-Zarqawi, would
have obviously required serious cover of the sort enjoyed by a state
intelligence service working in tandem with Jordanian intelligence
(since Jordan is "a police state with a democratic facade," according
to a former cabinet minister,
sneaking explosives into a hotel that caters to affluent foreigners
would have been, to say the least, difficult without government
complicity and all but impossible for rag-tag Iraqi resistance
fighters). In an effort to tighten the story and make it sound more
plausible for the al-Zarqawi suicide angle, "police sources"
(most likely Jordanian police spokesman Captain Bashir al-Da'jeh)
dismissed the ceiling story and introduced the more acceptable suicide
bomber explanation later in the day on November 9. Now we are told the
ceiling simply "caved in" as a result of "al-Qaeda in Iraq" suicide
bombers.
Suddenly everybody was on message. On November 10,
the mythical al-Zarqawi, via the internet, claimed responsibility for
the bombings in the "moderate Arab nation" that "has fought a
long-running battle against Islamic extremists opposed to its 1994
peace deal with Israel," according to the Bush Ministry of
Disinformation, Associated Press
division. Of course, in a monarchial police state run by Hashemites,
accustomed to wielding dictatorial power through hereditary emirs,
there is no such thing as moderate rule, but never mind. On the same
day, thousands "of Jordanians rallied in the capital and other cities
shouting 'Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!'" and the corporate media
imparts the impression these "protests" were spontaneous when in
fact - again in a monarchial police state - such independent action is
impossible and is in fact organized by the government (thus the display
of "Jordanian flags and posters of King Abdullah II" by citizens we are
expected to believe love their corrupt king and his freedom-hating
retinue). It is nearly vomit-inducing to witness the length the
corporate media has gone to portray average Jordanians as kowtowing
citizens of a "moderate" Arab country when in fact they are oppressed
subjects ruled under a "semi-constitutional" monarchy installed by
British invaders in 1921 as they went about carving up the Middle East
after defeating the Ottomans. But then tribal and chieftain-based
monarchy (especially the Hashemite version) is precisely what Israel
and the United States have in mind for the Arabs and Muslims of the
Middle East, so this compliant behavior by the corporate media is to be
more or less expected.
Now, with the ceiling story far
behind us - and the evacuation of the Israelis prior to the attack story
all but extinguished - we are told these al-Zarqawi suicide bombers
included a "husband and wife team" and the terrorists "carried out the
Amman attacks with explosive belts after carefully staking out the
hotels for a month," according to the Associated Press.
Once again, all of this is absurd on its face - Iraqis staking out hotels
in a police state as if they were casually walking around Cleveland,
Ohio, staking out the local Red Roof Inn - and no doubt the "husband and
wife team" bit was thrown in for shock value, a gruesome
stick-to-the-wall detail that tells us the Iraqi resistance (under the
sway of the dead cretin al-Zarqawi) is brutal, cold-hearted, and above
all nihilistic. "It was believed to be the first time a married couple
has carried out a suicide attack. The couple bombed the Days Inn after
the woman 'chose to accompany her husband to his martyrdom,' the
statement said." Of course, we can expect more married couples - soon
followed by fraternal and identical twins - to engage in such horrific
violence against "filthy Jews" (according to the deceased al-Zarqawi)
who are evacuated, leaving behind not only innocent Arabs attending a
wedding party but also a number of important Palestinians and Chinese
business partners.
"In its latest statement, Al-Qaida said the
bombings were carried out in response to 'the conspiracy against the
Sunnis,' referring to the Muslim Arab group favored under Saddam
Hussein's regime and now believed to form the core of the Iraqi
insurgency." Of course, this makes absolutely no sense - Sunni Muslims
comprise a full 92 percent of Jordanians and it makes less than no
sense to attack them to defend the honor of Sunnis in Iraq. But then we
are expected to believe al-Zarqawi the black op team attacks Shia
Muslims in Iraq because it is more important to kill heretics than
defeat the American occupation.
Obviously, the attack in
Amman was carried out by seasoned experts - almost certainly Mossad (the
attacks fit their modus operandi) - with the complicity of Jordanian and
U.S. military intelligence. It was engineered to reverse the support of
average Sunni Jordanians for the Sunni-led resistance in Iraq, kill
important Palestinians (and send a message to the Chinese, who support
the Palestinians), and also dovetail with Bush's desperate speech in
western Pennsylvania earlier today. "We must recognize Iraq as the
central front in our war against the terrorists," said Bush. No doubt
Bush and his neocon handlers believe the images from Amman of blown up
hotels - very westernized hotels and thus striking a cord with mostly
somnolent Americans - add the appropriate spin to his speech, which is in
fact a act of desperation as the Bushcons circle the wagons to fend off
growing criticism of the obvious fact Bush lied as he prepared to
attack a sovereign and defenseless nation.
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