the way i’ve heard it,
Jordan isn’t a radical Islamist band-wagoneer,
has recognized Israel,had/has treaties with Israel,
despite disagreements about the Palestinian claims,etc…

in other words,Zarq and his buddies likely consider
Jordan and it’s gov’t to be “collaborationist” in some way(s).

as a parallel one might ask:

why would
OBL and AQ under his direction
attack within Saudi Arabia…after all
it’s “his homeland”…eh?

i’m not aware that Jordan
gave access or staging for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Stealing an idea from Hugh Hewitt, if someone told me, on September 12th, that the media would view terror attacks as “good stories that might nail the Bush administration” I would have told them they were right.

If they told me that the Democratic leadership that had WARNED me for years preceding, that IRAQ, not TERROR by TERRORISTs, would be my primary future concern WOULD backpedal on this claim to gain campaign dollars, I might’ve paused.

I was deadly wrong.

The news yesterday that suicide bombers had attacked in Jordan made me pause a moment.

Isn’t this the homeland of Zarqawi? Why would he attack his own land:
“Despite the security measures that the traitor (Abdullah), the son of the trai…