Al Qaeada’s Damage Control

According to Al Jazeera, Al Qaeda in Iraq has gone into damage control mode over their mistake in carrying out the Amman bombings:

Amman bombs did not target Muslims

Al-Qaida in Iraq’s leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said in an internet audiotape the group did not intend to target Muslim wedding parties in deadly bomb attacks in Jordan last week.

In the tape, posted on an website often used by groups in Iraq, al-Zarqawi defended the blasts on three hotels saying al-Qaida had inside information that they were home to US, Israeli and Jordanian intelligence agencies.

“We ask God to have mercy on the Muslims, who we did not intend to target, even if they were in hotels which are centres of immorality,” the voice on the tape said.

“The idea that they blew up inside wedding ceremonies is a lie by the Jordanian regime… The target was a meeting of intelligence agencies, but a roof collapsed on a wedding party from the blast,” he said.

This is the first time Al-Qaeda has had to go back and apologize!

“We chose these hotels after over two months of thorough checks with trusted sources inside the hotels and elsewhere showed that they were centres for Jewish, US and Jordanian security apparatus”

Oh, so they are just incompetent? Not only are cracks emerging between Al-Qaeda and the Iraq insurgents next door to Jordan, but now they are happening elsewhere too. Thanks Zarqawi!