Israel Matzav: Iran ordered attack on Israeli convoy, smuggled explosives with diplomats

Was Ali-Muhammadi actually assassinated by Israel? According to some sources Israel would have no reason because the scientist was not involved in creating weapons. If Iran wasn’t creating nuclear weapons then why would Israel need to kill him?Jordanian bombs squad members inspect the site where a bomb targeted a convoy of cars from the Israeli Embassy in Amman, Jordan, Thursday.

In the wee hours of last Friday morning, I posted about a roadside bomb attack on a convoy taking Israeli embassy employees home for the weekend from Amman, Jordan. Sources close to Jordan’s General Intelligence Department are now reporting that the attack was ordered by Iran.

The sources said the GID was investigating the possibility that the explosives used in the attack had been smuggled into the kingdom by Iranian diplomats.

The attack itself was apparently carried out by local al-Qaida supporters who received money and explosives from Iran, the sources said.

On Monday, Al-Arabiya reported that an Amman taxi driver was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the bombing.

According to the sources, the GID believes that the attack came in response to the killing of Iranian scientist Prof. Massoud Ali Muhammadi in Teheran last week. Ali Muhammadi was killed by a remote-controlled bomb on a motorcycle.

On Monday, Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Muhammad Najjar vowed to take revenge on Israel over Ali-Muhammadi’s assassination.

Israel’s ambassador in Jordan, Yaakov Rosen (standing), shakes hands with Omar Nadif, Jordan’s deputy ambassador in Israel.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being behind the assassination, which he said had been carried out in “Zionist style.”

The sources in Amman pointed out that the attack on the Israeli diplomatic convoy had been carried out in a way similar to the assault on the slain Iranian professor.

“We can see Iran’s fingerprints on the roadside bombing,” the sources said. “The investigation is continuing in various directions.”

via jpost.com

According to some sources Israel would have no reason because the scientist was not involved in creating weapons.

Alimuhamadi the theoretical physics professor who was not involved in Iran’s nuclear program was probably assasinated for supporting Moussavi…. or was he?

Iran seems very determined in believing it was Israel that killed him… and if they do believe that then there has to be a reason Israel did this… and that is:

IRAN WAS VERY CLOSE TO HAVING THE BOMB!

But then it gets even better.

The sources said the GID was investigating the possibility that the explosives used in the attack had been smuggled into the kingdom by Iranian diplomats.

The attack itself was apparently carried out by local al-Qaida supporters who received money and explosives from Iran, the sources said.

On Monday, Al-Arabiya reported that an Amman taxi driver was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the bombing.

According to the sources, the GID believes that the attack came in response to the killing of Iranian scientist Prof. Massoud Ali Muhammadi in Teheran last week. Ali Muhammadi was killed by a remote-controlled bomb on a motorcycle.

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The sources in Amman pointed out that the attack on the Israeli diplomatic convoy had been carried out in a way similar to the assault on the slain Iranian professor.

“We can see Iran’s fingerprints on the roadside bombing,” the sources said. “The investigation is continuing in various directions.”

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Last year three Hamas activists were sentenced in Jordan to five years in prison for conducting surveillance of the Israeli Embassy in Amman.

via israelmatzav.blogspot.com

compound this with the CIA double agent issue in Jordan. I would say the kingdom is becoming unstable. The people in Jordan think their government is in cahoots with Israel. and indeed they are. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Jordan become a Palestinian state soon.

Israeli Diplomats Targeted in Failed Attack in Jordan | News | English

Israeli and Jordanian authorities are investigating a failed attack in Jordan that targeted Israeli diplomats.

A convoy of Israeli diplomats was driving on a desert road in Jordan on their way home for the weekend when a roadside bomb exploded. No one was hurt, but the incident exposed a serious security breach. Israeli diplomats usually travel under tight security in Jordan and use different routes and departure times, but whoever set off the remote control bomb was able to track their movements.

Jordanian media said a “professional terror cell” was behind the attack, possibly a Palestinian group or al-Qaida. One newspaper said the bombing was a message that Islamic militant groups are capable of infiltrating Jordan’s security establishment and hitting strategic assets.

Former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Israeli diplomats are on the front lines of the terror threat.

Livni told Israel Radio that the attack shows there are terrorist elements in Jordan that want “to attack the official symbols of the State of Israel and harm the strategic ties” between the two countries.

There is close security cooperation between the two Middle East neighbors, but there is also growing anti-Israel sentiment in Jordan since the Gaza War a year ago. The peace process is stalled and polls show that most Jordanians now oppose the peace treaty with Israel signed in 1994.

Livni says Israeli diplomats in Arab countries face a dilemma.

She said Israel wants to demonstrate a presence but diplomats also need to protect themselves and their families. She said a delicate balance can usually be found by stepping up security.

Jordan is concerned about such attacks because militant groups targeting Israel can also destabilize the Jordanian regime. In 2005, al-Qaida claimed responsibility for a triple bombing at luxury hotels in the Jordanian capital Amman that left 60 people dead.

via www1.voanews.com

I didn’t even realize that Israel was regularly sending ambassadors to Jordan

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Jordan to Censor Websites

Jordanian blogger Gaith Saqer covered the news in English this afternoon on his blog Arab Crunch.

Critics of the ruling worry that the law will be widely applied to social media, possibly even SMS and to websites that allow reader comments to be posted. Supporters appear to argue that free speech comes with responsibilities along these lines and that the legal framework actually facilitates online communication.

More information is available from the large Jordanian site AmmonNews or translated in English here.

Saqer contacted Google regarding this new front in the battle over censorship and democratized publishing online; he reports that a spokesperson said the company had no comment at this time.

via nytimes.com

you probably will not being seeing my website in Palestine… I mean Jordan.

denial of history: Dead Sea Scrolls are not from Israel?

I’ve heard of revisionism, but this is ridiculous. In Iraq the Arabs are remodeling the tomb of Daniel into a Mosque and Jordan thinks it should control the Jewish Dead Sea Scrolls and the West of course will be enabling enough to allow this. If you thought the destruction of the large Afghan Buddhist statues were bad, the loss of the Dead Sea Scrolls would put an end to scholarship on the historical element of the Torah and Christian ideas. Why are we entertaining these haters?

Jewish Heritage of ‘Palestinians’? Jordan and the PA have asked Canada to seize Israel’s 2,000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls, currently on display in Toronto. The PA acknowledges that the scrolls are Jewish, but claims that they are “also part of Palestinian heritage just as ancient Roman and Byzantine ruins comprise part of their history.” (Wasn’t the existence of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem recently denied by ‘educated’ Arabs?)

via docstalk.blogspot.com

Jordan has demanded that Israel hand over some of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls. The kingdom claims Israel seized the scrolls illegally from a museum in East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War in 1967.

Israel seized the scrolls and other antiquities from the Palestinian Museum, which was managed by Jordan in east Jerusalem when it occupied this part of the city in 1967,” said Rafea Harahsheh of Jordan’s antiquities department.

The scrolls were discovered by a Bedouin shepherd in 1947. The famous parchments number 900 documents and biblical texts belonging to the Essenes, a breakaway Jewish sect that lived in the craggy hills above the Dead Sea where the scrolls were discovered.

They provide a rare insight into life in the Holy Land and the emergence of early Christian groups in the area.

The Jordanians recently asked the Canadian government to seize some of the scrolls while they were on display in Toronto.

They have also appealed to the United Nations in support of their case.

Israel has refused to discuss handing back the scrolls. Its foreign ministry told the Jerusalem Post, “Jordan’s occupation of the West Bank was never recognized by the international community and the kingdom relinquished all claims on the territories. The scrolls have no relation to Jordan or the Jordanian people.”

Jordan says Israel seized 14 scrolls kept in a museum in the eastern sector of Jerusalem when its army occupied that Jordanian-controlled part of the city in the 1967 war. Israel annexed eastern Jerusalem soon after the war and now says the entire city is its unified, eternal capital. Israel’s annexation of Jerusalem has not been internationally recognized.

”We are very keen on getting them (the scrolls) by reminding different countries of the international accords on cultural wealth they signed,” Maha Khatib, Jordan’s tourism minister, told the AP, citing the 1954 Hague Convention governing the protection of cultural property during armed conflict.

Earlier this month, Canada refused a Jordanian request to stop the scrolls’ return to Israel, after they were displayed at a Toronto museum. It also refused a similar request made by the Palestinian Authority, according to Canadian diplomats.

Khatib said Jordan has given up hope that Israel would directly give back the more than 2,000-year-old scrolls and now hoped Western nations would return them to the Arab kingdom when they host them in exhibitions.

The scrolls include the earliest known version of portions of the Hebrew Bible and have shed important light on Judaism and the beginnings of Christianity. Their origin is the subject of an insular, but notoriously heated, academic debate.

They will next be exhibited in Milwaukee, Wisc., starting Jan. 22.

via vladtepesblog.com

Jordanian Bomber at CIA base was a double agent

Today’s special: Crispy fried jihadis… via weaselzippers.net

A Jordanian double agent killed seven CIA officers as well as a Jordanian intelligence officer at the U.S. outpost in Khost province, Afghanistan, last week, NBC reports.

The asset, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, was a doctor from the hometown of slain Jordanian Al Qaeda operative Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, who had been arrested by Jordanian authorities last year, and they thought, reformed. Al-Balawi reportedly told his Jordanian intelligence handler that he had information he had to give to the CIA related to Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian-born Al Qaeda deputy to Osama bin Laden. via politico.com

In this undated photo provided by Amy Messner, Scott Michael Roberson is seen. Roberson, 39, was working as a security officer for the CIA when the blast on Dec. 30, 2009 rocked the remote outpost in Khost province in Afghanistan, said his sister, Amy Messner of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. (AP Photo/Amy Messner) viakansascity.com

The Jordanian Embassy confirmed this morning that the Jordanian officer reported killed in the Khost attack, Sharif Ali bin Zeid, was a distant relative of King Abdullah II and the Jordanian ambassador to Washington, Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein. The embassy would not confirm that the Jordanian official was an intelligence official. via politico.com

The AP identifies a second of the seven CIA officials killed in the suicide attack as Scott Michael Roberson, 39, said to be working as a security officer for the CIA, and identified to the AP by his sister. Previously the family of Harold E. Brown has identified him as another of the American officials killed in the Khost attack. So far not publicly identified is the Khost CIA base chief, said to be a female veteran clandestine service officer with three children. via politico.com