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Four Palestinian Senior Officials Killed In Amman's Bombings
2005-11-10
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GAZA, Palestine, November 10, 2005 (IPC+ Agencies)-[Official PA website] - The Palestinian leadership declared three days of national mourning on the victims of the terrorist bombing of Amman, the Jordanian Capital.
Flags will be at half-mast for three days to show sadness and respect for people who died in the fatality.
President Abbas condemned vehemently last night the vicious attack on Amman which claimed lives of 57 and at least 300 injuries, designating the incident as a crime against the humanity that poses a threat against the Arab National Security.
On this appalling occasion, President Abbas sent a telegram to the Jordanian king in which he expressed the Palestinians' solidarity with the Jordanian people.
Four Palestinian Officials were among the killed
General Basheer Nafie, chief of military intelligence in the West Bank, Mr. Jihad Fatouh, the commercial agent in the Palestinian embassy in Egypt, and Abed Elwan, the general director of the Ministry of Interior were killed in the bombing.
Ma'an News Agency (MNA), an independent Palestinian news agency, reported that Mr. Musab Khurma, ex-general director of the Palestinian Telecommunication Ministry was killed along with the three officials.
Prompting by the sanguinary news, the Palestinian officials grouped at the presidential premises in Rammallah to follow up the news and to verify from the calamity.
Al-Jazeera T.V said that al-Qaeda Organization in the Mesopotamia claimed (through posting a statement on the internet) responsibility for the three simultaneous bombings in Amman.
The bloodletting onslaught drew an atmosphere that is tinged with anger in the Palestinian territories. Amman is chock-a-block with Palestinian residents and workers, let alone that the ownership of Al Diz Inn hotel in Al-Rabia neighborhood belongs to Al kahteib clan from Rammallah. In addition, more than 130 employees descendent of Palestinian families work in the targeted hotel.
The traumatic event left the two inextricably intertwined peoples in a shell-shocked state.
