Jack Kelly: Reservation for terror The media missed the story on the Baghdad hotel attack Sunday, October 30, 2005 Al-Qaida has claimed credit for a large, sophisticated attack Monday on the two hotels in Baghdad where most foreign journalists and many defense contractors stay. The attack failed, but it was a near-run thing. The Palestine and Sheraton hotels are across a short street from each other, adjacent to Firdous Square, a traffic roundabout where the statue of Saddam Hussein was torn down on April 9, 2003. The attack involved three suicide bombers and an unknown...