Sunday, November 20, 2005

Death threat issued against King of Jordan

As reported here, Zarqawi has issued a death threat against King Abdullah II of Jordan, in an attempt to regain support among the people of Jordan.

Although the message has yet to be verified as actually coming from Zarqawi, the rhetoric is typical of the terrorist, including getting facts of the bombings wrong. At the same time that the message was released, hundreds of thousands of Jordanians were marching in Amman, protesting Zarqawi's actions, and calling him a terrorist and a coward.

As I posted
here, I really do think that the attacks are a tipping point - at least in Jordan - with the protests by the Jordanians against Zarqawi bolstering that belief. Only time - and subsequent actions by the terrorists - will tell whether this will become a tipping point in other areas in the region as well.

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