Jordan Attacks Cause Arab Backlash Against Al Qaeda

Forward, November, 2005 by Nir, Ori

Nir, Ori Forward 11-18-2005 WASHINGTON -- Last week's suicide attacks on three Jordanian hotels has undercut Muslim support for Al Qaeda and the insurgents in Iraq, but also heightened concerns about their ability to strike Israel and other countries, experts said. "Unintentionally perhaps, the United States, through its actions in Iraq, has created a fertile zone where these militant extremists are sowing instability against some of the very governments we are trying to protect, such as Jordan," said Scott Lasensky, a Middle East scholar with the United States Institute of Peace, a government-funded think tank in Washington. "It is quite ironic that there is this regional blowback now," he said.

"It is fair criticism of the Bush administration that it...

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