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A Million Motives and Suspects in Jordan Embassy Bombing
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09 ago 2003
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There are a million suspects in the bombing of the Jordan Embassy in Baghdad, a lawless city overflowing with guerrilla fighters, criminals and shady figures full of hatred for America and its allies. |
The motives are ripe for choosing and the list of suspects endless: paramilitary fighters loyal to Saddam Hussein; a host of radical Islamist movements; and Iraqi nationalists embittered with Jordan. All of them have a vested interest in creating disorder and terror, seeing America’s adventure in Iraq end in humiliation and making Washington’s friends like Jordan pay the price.
Yesterday, the US-run Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) announced that the investigation of Thursday’s car bombing which killed at least 13 people and wounded more than 50 was in the hands of the Iraqi police, with close support from the US and British governments. “We will spare no effort to hunt them (the killers) down,� said Charles Heatley, the spokesman for the CPA, who labelled the attackers “intent on trying to disturb the peace .�
He accused the masterminds behind the car bombing of having “no respect for human life — be they the lives of their countrymen if there were Iraqis involved, or indeed if there were foreign terrorist elements.� US Army Col. Guy Shields, the chief military public affairs officer in Iraq, conceded it was impossible at this point to know whose fingerprints were on the blast.
A Pentagon official had on Thursday named the radical Islamist Ansar Al-Islam, an Iraqi group allegedly linked with the global Al-Qaeda terror network, as the chief suspect in the attack. But Shields refused to speculate on whether Ansar Al-Islam was behind the bombing. “Obviously that group would want to do that, but at this point in time it is too early to say which group is behind it,� the colonel said.
Meanwhile, six US troops were wounded in attacks north and west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad Friday, while an Iraqi doctor said US soldiers shot dead five arms sellers and a child at an arms market in Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit. The assaults against US troops marked 100 days since US President George W. Bush declared an end to official hostilities in Iraq. Since then, 55 US soldiers have been killed in attacks, thought to be organized by local pockets of resistance owing allegiance to Saddam and other groups of Iraqis opposed to the US-led occupation.
In Tikrit, north of the capital, the head of the local hospital said five Iraqi men and a child were shot dead when a US military patrol sprayed bullets at arms sellers test-firing Kalashnikovs in a street market. But US military spokesman Lt. Col. Bill MacDonald disputed this account, saying just two men were killed and two wounded, and describing them as “suspected former regime loyalists trafficking illegal arms.
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