Series of attacks in Amman in 2005

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During the series of attacks in Amman on November 9, 2005, bomb attacks were carried out in three hotels in the Jordanian capital, Amman . 60 people were killed or fatally injured and 115 others injured in these attacks.

The hotels were affected:

  • Grand Hyatt Hotel
  • Radisson SAS Hotel
  • Days Inn.

The perpetrators came from the al-Qaeda organization in Iraq led by Abū Musʿab az-Zarqāwī . The assassin Sajida al-Rishawi was executed in 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dpa / Reuters / jw: Japan and Jordan want to exchange prisoners with IS. In: welt.de . January 28, 2015, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-prisoner-swap-with-ISIS-could-be-possible-for-captured-Jordanian-pilot-385767
  3. ↑ James Glanz: In Jordan, Methodical Madness . New York Times, November 13, 2005, accessed June 16, 2016