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Friday, August 19, 2005

So much for no attacks on U.S. interests since Bush's Iraq adventure
Posted by Jill | 10:18 AM

MSNBC is reporting an attack on a U.S. Navy ship in Jordan today:

Attackers fired at least three missiles from Jordan on Friday, with one narrowly missing a U.S. Navy ship docked in a Jordanian port and killing a Jordanian soldier, and another falling close to a nearby airport in neighboring Israel, officials said.

Jordanian security forces are hunting a Syrian and two Iraqi nationals, a security source said.

An Internet statement released by the al-Qaida-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades militant group claimed responsibility the attacks.

The Abdullah Azzam brigades was among several groups that claimed responsibility for previous attacks on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, including the Oct. 7 car bombing of a hotel in the resort of Taba, which borders Israel, and the July 23 Sharm el-Sheik bombings that killed at least 64 people.

Officials said they believe Katyusha rockets were fired from a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Aqaba, a Jordanian Red Sea port 210 miles south of the capital, Amman, officials added.

The attacks come amid a time of tension in the region marked by Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.


The fact that an Iraqi national is being sought is going to give the wingnut gasbags ammunition for their claims that Iraq is "the enemy", not realizing that this view shoots the "We went to war to liberate the Iraq people from a tyrant" meme right to hell.

It's also interesting that this attack is being linked in the press to Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. I thought this was one of the things the Islamic world wanted? Are these guys trying to prove the dispossessed Israeli settlers who claim that this move will just embolden terrorists right?
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