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To: krazyrep
No one claimed immediate responsibility for the simultaneous attacks, which displayed audacity in their use of military-style weapons and techniques.

Displaying audacity without a doubt but falling short in marksmanship and technique. No wander no one is wanting to take credit ;-)

6 posted on 08/19/2005 7:26:34 AM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: varon

According to CNN, AQ is claiming responsibility

Al Qaeda Claim for Red Sea Attacks

Friday, August 19, 2005; Posted: 9:35 a.m. EDT (13:35 GMT)

(CNN) -- An al Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility for rocket attacks Friday that targeted but missed two U.S. military ships in the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba.

The three Katyusha rockets hit a warehouse and a hospital in Aqaba, killing a Jordanian soldier, and struck the nearby Israeli port city of Eilat.

A second Jordanian soldier was severely wounded. No U.S. military personnel were injured.

"Zionists are our rightful target," according to the statement signed by al Qaeda in Levant and Egypt, the Martyr Abdallah Azzam Brigades.....

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/19/jordan.blasts/index.html?section=cnn_world


7 posted on 08/19/2005 7:29:17 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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