UPDATE: please note Haaretz retracted their article, as noted in one or more of the posts below. (end of update)...
I am trying to figure out the relevance (or lack of relevance), and the legitimacy (or illegitimacy) of the following two recent articles:
THIS ARTICLE in the LA Times, which states:
"...The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Israelis staying at the Radisson on Wednesday had been evacuated before the attacks and escorted back home 'apparently due to a specific security threat.'
Amos N. Guiora, a former senior Israeli counter-terrorism official, said in a phone interview with The Times that sources in Israel had also told him about the pre-attack evacuations.
'It means there was excellent intelligence that this thing was going to happen,' said Guiora, a former leader of the Israel Defense Forces who now heads the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. 'The question that needs to be answered is why weren't the Jordanians working at the hotel similarly removed?'..."
and also the original Haaretz (Israeli paper) article to which the LA Times article refers:
HAARETZ article...wherein we find this:
"...A number of Israelis staying yesterday at the Radisson SAS were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert. They were escorted back to Israel by security personnel..."
Whether or not this is ever corroborated, which seems unlikely, it raises several questions:
a) how would Israeli intelligence have known beforehand about the Amman attacks, and why were others not told (it is worth noting that a Palestinian Intelligence official was killed in the blasts)?
b) is there any possibility a rogue element within Israeli intelligence is responsible for the attacks (as a so-called false-flag operation)?
I actually dislike raising the possibility of b, and I am genuinely not trying to air wild-eyed conspiracy theories here, but I am nevertheless curious what the sources on the Haaretz article are.
Your thoughts?