Jordanian Man Dies After Five Rockets Hit Aqaba And Eilat

Haaretz ^ | 2 Aug 2010 | Haaretz Service

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A Jordanian man died on Monday after a rocket apparently fired from the Sinai Peninsula exploded near him in the Red Sea port city of Aqaba.

A total of five rockets were toward Aqaba and the Israeli city of Eilat, just after 8 A.M. The man succumbed to his serious wounds a few hours after the incident. Three other Jordanian were wounded, but there were no casualties in Eilat.

[edpc]

Update from earlier story in breaking news column. In a report from the Jerusalem Post, Egyptian authorities deny rockets were launched from Sinai, stating the heavy security in the area makes it "impossible."

[Uncle Ike]

I forget where I saw it, but there was a mention earlier this morning that the rockets may have been fired *from* Jordan -

Since the casualties are reported to be Jordanian, and no one in the target city of Eilat was hurt, this sounds like a ‘workplace accident’.....

[RoadTest]

What are people doing firing rockets in peacetime? The Palestinians are friends of the peace-preaching Liberals and Progressives. Rockets are for war.

You don’t suppose Liberals and Progressives are war-like, do you? Huh? What?

[hal ogen]

Those peace-loving Pali’s are such a fun people...and so civilized too. They kindly share their rockets and bombs with others, attempting to blow Israelis to bloody shreds each and every day. What a kind and generous people. The nobama loves to give them money from his “stash” to pay for this generosity.

[mazda77]

A Jordanian man died on Monday after a rocket apparently fired from the Sinai Peninsula . . .

Nice shootin' Tex!/sarc

Seems those idiots have not figured out them thar rockets ain't so smart./Yosemite Sam

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[justiceseeker93]

FYI, the two cities (Eilat and Aqaba) are only a few miles from each other, a long walk if you can negotiate the international boundary. So this seems like a fortunate case of bad aim on the part of the rocket launchers.

[Eleutheria5]

If the rockets were fired AT Jordan, are they now at war with Aza? If it was fired FROM Jordan, are we (Israel) now at war with Jordan? What’s in a preposition? A missile by any other name would detonate as loud.