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August 24, 2005
Aqaba, some moderately ignored items
Oddly the Aqaba attack, no doubt to the sheer pitifulness of our fine rocketeers' aim (really no respect for the craft of rocketing these days), seems to have generated relatively little attention.
Yes, the usual bleating about terror this and that in the usual places, a rather typical and in my mind largely posturing claim on behelf of Zarqaouie via the internet.... but little attention to the idea of Aqaba as the first Iraq spillover event (although one might suggest the truck bomb "chemical threat" thing of last year which I very much enjoyed personally (emptied out my fav places in Amman, great seating to be had) was something of a spillover.
Pity, it should have been a point of heated speculation.
Brought to mind by this al Hayat arty on the issue.
As an aside, I have to say I feel funny calling this a terror attack as it rather fits very conventional military action. Attack on a warship, by rockets by an opposing group. Now, presuming the authors were / are in fact part of the Zarqaouine (to coin a word), they probably are generically terrorists, but calling this particular action a terror attack is very inexact.
Posted by The Lounsbury at August 24, 2005 02:36 PM
Filed Under: Iraq War
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