The Radisson, Days Inn and Hyatt Hotels in Amman, Jordan were hit by coordinated explosions, probably suicide bombs, tonight.
So far (5:30 EST), the confirmed death toll is 57.
Pitifully, the Radisson bomber set off his charge at a wedding party. ( This makes a bizarre assortment of book and movie titles echo in my head, like The Wedding Within the War, The Member of the Wedding, "The Wedding Guest" (it's from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"!) . . . ouch, "Wedding Crashers" . . .)
Another carefully placed "political" hammer blow to a fault line in the Middle East. (As they're saying on "Hardball": majority Palestinian population, right across the border from Iraq, very pro-insurgency street, very pro-American government, staging area for aid operations in Iraq.) Zarqawi the prime suspect.
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