Among the casualties of last week’s suicide bombings in Amman were a number of Palestinians attending a wedding. While we regret the loss of life and suffering of the families in the terror attacks, we were also struck by the terrible irony of this Associated Press photo. On closer look, the pictures on the wall behind the mourners appear to be a different category of “martyrs” — three of who clearly hold rifles.
Palestinian friends and relatives of members of the Akhras clan that were killed in a bombing in Jordan, gather in a mourning room in the northern West Bank village of Silet-Al-Thaher, near Jenin, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005. Family members mourned the deaths of seventeen relatives killed in a suicide bombong at a hotel in Amman, Jordan late Wednesday. The bombings at three hotels in Amman on Wednesday night killed at least 56 people, including 26 Palestinians with roots in the West Bank. Among the victims were members of the Akhras clan who were attending a family wedding, the West Bank’s intelligence chief, a diplomat and a prominent banker. It was the largest single number of Palestinians ever killed in such attacks.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
