Suicide attack falls short in fragile Amman
Three non-Jordanians were arrested on March 1st as their mission to execute a suicide attack on one of Jordan’s civil establishments was successfully brought to a failing end.
I hear that these people were targeting one of Amman’s landmarks, the building of the Housing Bank for Trade and Finance, and it is not humorous to reflect on how close I have been in the past few days to this location. This, I think, adds a personal taste to danger. You feel bad for the wounded, you mourn the dead, but you only feel what you go through first hand.
The three make part, so reports Jordan’s News Agency Petra, of a larger cell imported from other countries into Jordan. Some are Saudis, some Libyans, and others are Iraqis. I really could not care less for nationality but a striking observation that shouts out from that news bit is that none of those arrested, and those hunted down, are Jordanians. Naturally, to trust too much in the news is an error, as a matter of logic, to trust in anything excessively is fallacious.
I am forced to think of possibilities, and a little of mathematics. On November 2005, an unspeakable crime took many lives, and, according to the rules of a veiled game of luck, I was spared hours before the tragedy struck. I am saddened by the fact that the chronological life line seperating me from disaster, or so seems its job and purpose, is shrinking. This alleged target-establishment is so close I cannot even start to describe how close it is, I was there for several reasons this week, once being yesterday.
If anything, this is a nonnegotiable, and concrete, token to evidence the fragility of life.
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March 2nd, 2006 at 9:38 am
you came close, i was there yesterday for a couple of hours.
i heard it was macca mall that was targeted though. I thank god they were captured
March 2nd, 2006 at 9:49 am
Why would you describe amman as “fragile” ? I read through your blog post and didn’t see you explaining this description.. you indeed proved that life is fragile, but is the city fragile? are the people fragile?
March 2nd, 2006 at 10:13 am
Indeed Sabri, it is the proximity of death that is the point, I think.
Isam Bayazidi, to answer you is to go into little metaphorical particulars; I will try to be concise. I think all things are fragile, even if mighty.
March 2nd, 2006 at 10:16 am
Tololy, great post.
I see the ‘fragility’ of Amman as it’s vulnerability of it’s geography, a city built on trust that these things would never hit the city. To see barricades go up around hotels and banks is a symbol of what happens in a heart when trust is broken and the fragility of trust is exposed.
March 2nd, 2006 at 10:36 am
It is all a question of luck when it comes to these attacks - luck to be in the right place or the wrong place, luck to be somewhere at the right time or the wrong time. I’ve lost track of how many close calls I’ve had - one bombing at my train station a few minutes after my husband had picked me up, another at the exact same spot by a mall in Tel Aviv where I’d stood exactly 24 hours earlier, etc. The fact that there is no logic adds to the fragility. It’s not like crime, where you know that you’re chances are higher of being mugged, attacked, or whatever if you are in certain neighborhoods known for high crime rates. You can’t take precautions. It’s the unpredictability of it all that makes everything so fragile, I think.
March 2nd, 2006 at 2:13 pm
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Salamat! The sad reality is that no one is immune from terror.
Sigh!
March 2nd, 2006 at 5:25 pm
7amdellah 3ala essalameh … and kudos on the Jordanian security for nabbing those vermin
March 2nd, 2006 at 7:10 pm
Kinzi,
What you said is absolutely correct. Every time I see security guards at the portals of malls and hotels I just have this flow of sadness sweeping through me and I think, “This does not feel like Amman”. But I realize the importance of these champs and I am willing to overlook the uneasiness if it would keep people safe; this reality is so brutal because it offers no alternatives.
She,
Luck it is, as you said. I agree with you that the “no logic” aspect to it adds to the danger.
Silly Bahraini Girl,
Welcome to Tololy’s Box, I hope you would drop by again. Thank you for your remark and you are quite correct, nobody is immune from death, whatever its shape, but this new terror is a new addition.
Moryarti,
Allah ysallmak, I appreciate your concern, and Silly Bahraini Girl’s. We are very glad those people were caught before they actually manage to carry out their designs. Welcome to my Box, enjoy your stay.
March 5th, 2006 at 9:55 am
I do wonder when will the terror fever come to an end….It’s becoming boring and frustrating and their objective is completely distorted because the only result is death - death to all the wrong people - although it’s not right for us to subject ppl with it be it they are good or bad. Ok, Im just rambling again. Hope you get my drift.