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Bomber's wife arrested in Jordan!
Photo of the terrorist as she appeared
on Jordan TV describing her crime.
Police have arrested a woman suspected of having wanted to blow herself up in a triple suicide bombing in Jordan, King Abdullah has said.
Police say the Iraqi woman is the wife of one of three Iraqi male suicide bombers who attacked three hotels in Amman on Wednesday, killing 57 people.
Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher said she was also the sister of a lieutenant of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. [via: BBC]
A big salute to all the security forces in Jordan. You guys deserve another medal of honor for your speed and dedication to protect Jordan from these animals!
Some reports say that when her suicide belt failed to blow up the husband pushed her outside before detonating himself. Other reports say that after her explosives failed to detonate, her husband asked her to leave before detonating his own.
Now, read between lines. Here is my two cents. First, "her explosives failed" leads to a question? Where they testing it? I mean, would her husband ask her to explode herself before him? And why would he do that? Were they distant from each other so that explosion takes place one after another? Maybe they were in contact over mobile device or so. That's the only thing one can think of. Because if they were beside each other, she detonating herself first would mean her husband death and visa versa. So, these two animals must have the intention to cause more damage than what we have seen.
On the other hand, this defuses the first report that said "he pushed her outside", because he wouldn't have been standing by her to detonate herself. So, I'll adopt the second version of the story.
Next, she leaves. What happened bitch? Did you get afraid of going to hell? Why didn't you stay with your mate? Or was it so romantic moment that he asked you to leave, so you left? Don't you want to join him in paradise to drink wine and have unlimited sex? Isn't this your promised prize? Or you thought you will take next bus to hell heaven?
We have to keep in mind that these stories must be from her. Otherwise, who was left to tell the story of the last minute except her? But we don't have to believe her. I mean of course she left, thank God her explosives failed, but this might not be the complete story.
On the other hand, Zarqawi made a big mistake by his announcement that four terrorist including the woman was part of this crime. Of course, Zarqawi didn't know that she escaped; otherwise he would have not mentioned her. And this was taken very smartly by Jordanian security forces to look and capture this bitch, although they denied that there was a woman, because that's the fact. The woman didn't detonate herself.
Anyway, I hope, and trust that our Jordanian security forces will crack down more of this group soon. God bless them all, God bless Jordan.
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The bombing have to be a turning point right.I mean it will show people in the muslim world who supported bin landen and zarqawi in the muslim world that the bastards will slaughter anyone including muslim women and chilren
OK, let me get this straight it takes a bombing in Jordan to show that Bin Laden and Zarqawi will kill women and children? Nevermind what is happening in Iraq.
And yes, the killing of innocent civilians is terrible, it is brutal, it is despicable, but it is really easy to point at what these bastards in Iraq did and pretend that their actions occurred in a vacuum independent of the Jordanian actions and independent of the tacit support of the Jordanian "monarchy" for the war in Iraq.
And as sad as each death of innocent civilians is don't forget the brutal fact that while about 100 people died in Jordan that well over 100,000 innocent civilians have died in Iraq.
I have a question that maybe a Jordanian can answer. Would Jordanian courts give this woman the death penalty? I know they have executed terrorists in the past. It's somewhat controversial to execute women in the US, where the death penelty is commmon. How do you think Jordanians would come down on this question?
Appalled at Stupidity,
Iraq is in war against occupation. Let us remember that before U.S. invasion to Iraq, there was no presence of Al Qaeda in Iraq. U.S. failed to find WoMD in Iraq made them so embarrassed they invented an enemy called Al Qaead in Iraq to label all resistance as Al Qaeda. However, Iraq is in such a mess, you can't make out the difference between terrorism and resistance. So, while Al Qaeda kills innocents in Iraq, U.S. army does too. That makes no difference between the two for Arab and Muslims. Both are terrorists and both kills’ innocents.
No, it does not take a bombing in Amman to realize that Al Qaeda is a terrorist group. In fact Jordan was the first country to sentence this group and put its captured members in jail. However, sympathy of humble Arab and Muslims toward this group was always under the fact that they are fighting a common enemy, USA. You know, my enemy’s enemy is my friend. But when my friend turns on me, then fuck him. Just like the humble Americans whom when asked to finger point Iraq on the map, out of ten, zero could give the correct answer. What does that tell you? Humble Americans don’t know what is going on or what the war in Iraq is for, or where Iraq is. In fact most of them pointed to Australia as the location of Iraq.
Speaking from moderate Arab and Muslims, no, they always condemn Al Qaeda as well occupation, all type of occupation. However, for political and war reasons, the western media always shown that the Arab and Muslim world as supporter to Al Qaeda. No body reads our condemnation and rejection to these terrorist groups.
In fact, such posts by say, blogger, go unnoticed, with the lowest comments, which mean two things. Either our friends are not interested to read the truth, or they read it and in doubt and have no answer to give.
What you saw in Jordan streets is the live fact, that Arabs and Muslims hate terrorist just like you do, but on top of that, they also hate occupation. Occupation of Palestine and Iraq, and any Arab or Muslim country under the threat of USA aggression.
Having said all that, I have to clear out, that hate USA means hate to its policy, politics, unjust, control and aggression of the system, not hate its people. In fact, we are like majority (who was 50% when elected bush) of Americans, who now do not agree to what Bush and his office are doing.
God bless the world.
Chris,
I'm not sure of the history of executing woman in Jordan. But from what I know that there are no restrictions to do so.
Speaking of Jordanians; most if not all would like to see her not only executed, but stoned to death. And before that, maybe to the U.S. method of "Sensory deprivation" while she is in public square.
They executed a woman 2 years ago in Amman, she was a serial killer
Aren't we all jumping to conclusions here? And doing exactly what the US and its motley allies have predicted. I call false flag operation on this one.
Kurt Nimmo said it best: http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=119
Wouldn't executing her just make her a "martyr"?
I'm opposed to the death penalty. It doesn't solve anything and it reduces society to the level of the criminal.
Martyr for whom, Anne?
No it will not. Jordan constitution and laws are driven from Quran. So no one can claim anything other than she is a criminal that deserves execution.
I also don’t prefer to see her executed. Better I see her rotten in Jail for the rest of her life, until she maybe commits a suicide.
Anne, the death penalty does keep other innocent people from being killed, and does act as a deterrent. I don't like the death penalty, but I like it more than having killers roam free to have them murder again.
The death penalty does not act as a deterrent. Most professionals in the U.S. criminal justice system (judges, district attorneys) oppose the death penalty because it isn't a deterrent and it just wastes money (wastes money here in the U.S. because we have a complex legal system involving the right to many appeals to higher courts). I used to counsel ex-criminals and I can tell you that they are not the type of people who think logically about the consequences of their actions. So they don't think about the death penalty because they don't think they will get caught. And you can put people in prison for life and they will not kill again. Although actually murderers have a low recidivism rate anyway.
Anne, I'm an ex-pat American and familiar with the legal system, although not as much as you obviously are. Can't think logically about the consequences of murder? Yikes! Maybe ex-criminals would be more aware of the consequences if capital punishment happened more often? Isn't it the case that most murderers start out in lesser crime – and I imagine, though they may not return to murder, do return to crime of some kind?
I am sure that the streets of Amman are safer than the streets of New York for this reason. Zarqawi was locked up, then released, then…look what is up now. Cost-wise, isn't it a huge waste of money to lock someone up for life?
I work with victims of childhood sexual abuse, and with the high rate of recidivism of sex offenders, I sometimes wish serial offenders could receive the death penalty.
Thanks for your thoughts on a hard subject.
Kinzi,
Cost-wise, it's actually more expensive to execute someone in the U.S. than to put them in prison for life. That's because of all the appeals and the fact most death row inmates spend at least 10-20 years on death row.
Child abusers have a notoriously high rate of recidivism. Some of them should be incarcerated for life in my opinion, maybe in a forensic hospital, but only if they have shown no progress in a treatment program. Some states have tried this but there are constitutional issues involved.
Yes most murderers (although not all) start out with other crimes. In my opinion we should incarcerate people for longer terms for crimes such as assault and then try to rehabilitate them after release.
As for Zarqawi, I don't know what crimes he committed before and what type of punishment he was eligible for under Jordanian law. I will now say something some might find objectionable, but I will say it anyway: From the pictures I've seen of Zarqawi and the info I know from his early life, I believe he probably grew up depressed as well as rebellious. Maybe if someone had reached out to him and offered him the help he needed, he wouldn't have become a terrorist.
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