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...Norquist also suggested the natural disasters, as well as either the voters of Iraq (or, alternately, the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who hopes to thwart them). TIME's own Matthew Cooper, who has been at the center of the criminal investigation into alleged White House leaks of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, suggested that Bill Gates may be worthy of Person of the Year award for his work as a philanthropist. And, ever the White House correspondent, he also suggested that President Bush could be considered for a second year in a row- although this time...
...There's no poll data yet to back up Shukri's assessment, but anecdotal evidence is adding up: Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets over the weekend, waving Jordanian banners, rather than burning American and Israeli flags, and voicing outrage against Zarqawi's terrorism. Among the first to condemn the hotel attacks was the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan's most influential fundamentalist group. "What jihad is this," asked Jordanian columnist Taher Adwan, "when a young Arab man enters a hall where a wedding of Jordanian citizens is taking place to inflict the heaviest losses in life?" A similar local backlash...
...King Abdullah II, in a nationally televised address, warned Zarqawi's network that Jordan would "pursue them wherever they are and smoke them out of their holes." In parading Rishawi before the cameras, Abdullah also showed that he intends to go head-to-head with the terrorists in the battle for Jordanian hearts and minds. Rishawi has an extremist pedigree-not only her brother-in-law, but also her own brother, another Zarqawi acolyte, died at Falluja. But before a TV audience of millions throughout the Arab world, she struck a pathetic figure. It turns out that she was married...
...Sunni insurgency in Iraq, which it has viewed as leading the resistance against American and other foreign forces. (After the bombings, Kuwaiti commentator Ahmed Rabi scolded the Jordanian media for its past "defense of the black violence in Iraq.") In justifying the slaughter, a statement from Abu Musab al Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's Jordanian-born leader in Iraq, explained that the Amman hotels were targeted because they were "used as a garden for the Jews and Christians...as a base for infidel intelligence forces who are conspiring against Muslims...
...This time, however, Jordanians weren't buying the propaganda. The hotel attacks, says Ali Shukri, a longtime advisor to the late King Hussein, were "not a rude awakening, but a bloody awakening" for the many Jordanians who have shown sympathy for Zarqawi's gruesome acts in the past. "It's come back to haunt them," says Shukri. "Most people will swing 180 degrees...