The Mundane and Joyous Alike Transformed Into the Unthinkable

[Colorado Blue]

AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 10 - The bride and groom paraded through the lobby toward their reception, joyful music blaring, people smiling, clapping. Moments later a blast shook the room. The groom paced back and forth over his father's body, shouting: "Dad! Dad! But you have not even seen my wedding yet!"

At the Radisson SAS Hotel in Amman, Jordan, a man walked into a room where a wedding was taking place and blew himself up on Wednesday.
Said Abu Hasnaha is a doctor and a specialist in intensive care. But the blood, the body parts, the jarring juxtaposition of a marriage celebration with the carnage of a suicide bomber, was too much to make sense of.

"It was like a battlefield, a killing field," Dr. Hasnaha said a day later, standing in the very same lobby at the Radisson SAS Hotel. "I saw people with smoking flesh. I saw people with limbs missing. People were running, screaming calling for help. I had no feeling. No thinking. I just did my job."

Suicide bombers who struck at three hotels here in the typically tranquil capital of Jordan on Wednesday night did not attack just concrete and steel. They singled out people like Ashraf al-Khalid Daas and his bride, Nadia Alami, and their families. They singled out Anwar Mounir Akel, a waiter who crawled over piles of bloodied bodies before blacking out and waking in a hospital bed with an injured spine. They singled out a room full of diners seated around tables, drinking coffee.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/11/international/middleeast/11hotels.html

Heartbreaking.

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Interesting...

So the one attack took place at the actual wedding? Was someone there the target(s)? Or was it just for "body count" purposes?

Both the Bride and Groom lost their fathers in the blast. It is just unimaginable!

[Colorado Blue]

2. Yes. There was a wedding. This is an unimaginable tragedy.

Reading this article really brings it home. This could happen anywhere, anytime.

I wish we could reach out to the bereaved and the injured. I wonder if there's anything we can do, even send letters, anything?

[Coastie for Truth]

3. Of course when these things happen at Israeli weddings

the pro-Israeli posters are called ethno-centric bigots and racists.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. "Unthinkable" Un-secure American hotels in Jordan?

I don't know how "Unthinkable" that is.

[Coastie for Truth]

5. In these troubled times

Any breach of security is "unthinkable"

See Stephen Flynn, Commander, US Coast Guard (Retired)- America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism

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"Coastie"
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