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To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (130)	11/14/2005 12:57:37 AM
From: twmoore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152

I don't believe this story for one second. AMMAN, Jordan Nov 13, 2005 — An Iraqi woman confessed on Jordanian state television Sunday that she tried to blow herself up along with her husband during a hotel wedding reception last week, saying that the explosives concealed under her denim dress failed to detonate. Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, 35, made her statement hours after being arrested by authorities tipped off by an al-Qaida in Iraq claim that a husband-and-wife team participated in Wednesday's bombings at three U.S.-based hotels. The attackers killed 57 other people at the Radisson SAS, Grand Hyatt and Days Inn hotels. Al-Rishawi's brother was once the right-hand man to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, said deputy premier Marwan Muasher. He said the brother, Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, was killed in the former terrorist stronghold of Fallujah, Iraq. Iraqi Woman Admits on TV to Jordan Attack Al-Zarqawi Setting Sights Beyond Iraq Explosive Admission Officials believe al-Rishawi, who entered Jordan from Iraq on Nov. 5, may provide significant information about the operations of al-Zarqawi's group, which claimed responsibility for the hotel bombings, Jordan's deadliest terrorist attacks. The group said the attacks were retaliation for Jordan supporting the United States and other Western powers. Al-Rishawi was shown on state television wearing a white head scarf, a buttoned, body-length dark denim dress, and belts packed with TNT and ball bearings. Muasher told CNN the belts were captured with her. Al-Rishawi said she and her husband, Ali Hussein Ali al-Shamari, 35, were wearing explosive-laden belts when they strolled into a Radisson ballroom where hundreds of guests, including children, were attending a Jordanian-Palestinian wedding reception. "My husband wore a belt and put one on me. He taught me how to use it, how to pull the (primer cord) and operate it," she said, wringing her hands. "My husband detonated (his bomb). I tried to explode (my belt) but it wouldn't. I left, people fled running and I left running with them." Muasher said al-Rishawi's husband noticed her struggle and pushed her out of the ballroom in order not to attract attention before blowing himself up. Continued

To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (130)	11/16/2005 12:51:46 AM
From: Seeker of Truth	Respond to of 152

"Pearl Harbour was provoked as an excuse to get into the war in Europe." Evidently you weren't around at the time. As soon as the Japanese attacked the American public turned their eyes west to the Pacific and forgot about Europe. Congress was determined not to fight a two front war. Four days after Pearl Harbour, Hitler suddenly declared war on the US. He was emboldened by radiopictures he saw of the ships lying on their side in Pearl Harbour and his own conquest of most of Europe. He was at the gates of Moscow then. On June 21 he had only the British to conquer. On December 11 he was at war with the British, the Soviet Union and the US. Hitler took a few days to concoct his speech to the German people embodying his excuse to get into the war against the US, not the way you said it. I remember those four days like they were yesterday. I feared that the US would stop helping the British and that Hitler would continue his victories in Russia. What a relief when Hitler declared war! I was at university then. I couldn't find a single fellow student who had any doubts; the allies would suffer but finally beat them, both Germany and Japan. The US participation in WWII was not preceded by lies a la Bush and his crowd. Hitler murdered 15 million Russians and other Slavs, one million gypsies, six million Jews, more than a hundred thousand Germans who had been labor union leaders, Communists,or just people of good will who had opposed him on his way up to power. Helping Britain was the natural thing to do. But the American public did not want to go to war. Hitler attacked the US.