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

—  Abu Musab Zarqawi

On the 2005 Amman bombings. Zarqawi in his own words http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5058474.stm BBC News (November 2005)

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