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They were not the only mourners burying their dead in Amman last week. At almost the exact time on Wednesday, another suicide bomber blew himself up in the lobby of the Grand Hyatt Hotel. A third bomber detonated just outside the entrance to a Days Inn; had he made it inside, he probably would have killed dozens of official visitors who were part of a delegation from China. The attacks left at least 57 people dead, making them the most devastating terrorist strikes in Jordan's history, and set off reverberations throughout the Middle East. Responsibility for the attacks...
...Laden's al-Qaeda organization, whose franchise in Iraq, which specializes in suicide bombings and beheadings of kidnap victims, is headed up by Zarqawi. The bomber at the Radisson SAS hotel is thought to have walked into a hall where a wedding reception was in progress, where he blew himself up just before the bride and groom arrived. Another attacker blew himself up in the marble and glass lobby of the Grand Hyatt. At the Days Inn, it appeared that a suicide bomber inside a vehicle detonated his explosives prematurely when he was stopped for questioning by security guards...
...Mitch Williams vs. the Strike Zone ( The Wild Thing's eccentric fast ball had helped the Philadelphia Phillies beat the superior Atlanta Braves in the play-offs, but in the World Series against Toronto, he lost all sense of navigation and blew two crucial games. The closer has closed in Philly: he was abruptly traded to Houston...
...yellow-ribbon journalism. Despite disagreement over why the press has not fully covered Iraq, many participants touted an overhaul of the journalism field. “There is this big institutional failure,” said Massing. “There’s an accurate awareness...that they blew it.” Nick Danilov, a professor from Northeastern University and former reporter for U.S. News and World Report, agreed with Massing. “I’m not sure that [journalism] is a profession,” said Danilov, during the discussion period...
...more than 100 m.p.h. winds. Since Wilma came ashore on Florida's west coast, many had hoped it would weaken before it hit the east; instead it sped across the Everglades like a high-power airboat. At Pedroz's building, the storm shattered sliding glass doors, tossed furniture and blew down walls. After the assault, much of the 26-floor building's fa?ade looked as if it were bombed. "We thought the building was going to break in two," said a shaken Pedroz. "I don't know why the owner didn't put up hurricane shutters...