Do you think there is a CHANCE that last weeks bombings were a sort of 9/11 moment for King Abdullah???
I mean, he can look at the citizens of his own country...and see the potential for an attempted coup attempt if he doesn't get on top of the situation...
Like you said, there are Palestinians...whose whole history is of being sucide bombers...what it to keep them from joining forces with Al-Zarqawi...and try to take over Jordan.
Luckily, there is a very LOUD contingent in Jordan that sees the writing on the wall....and is determined NOT to let Abdullah ignore what happened last week, hopefully.
The Palestinians have already tried to take over Jordan once before, back in 60's I believe. I don't remember a lot of the details now, but hopefully someone will fill in some backgound. Something around a quarter of a million of them or so were in Jordan, and once they felt their position was strong enough they did what they always do and started the intifada. The Jordanian king at the time (the father of the current king) responded by slaughtering tens of thousands of them and kicking the rest out of his country. Even other Arab countries don't want the Palestinians - they are the absolute scum of the earth, but useful for whipping Arabs into a frenzy over Israel.