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Protests in Jordan comdemning al-Zarqawi:

Jordanian citizens gathered near the Radisson Thursday, some of them parents with children, to march in solidarity against the attacks. They waved Jordan's red, black, green and white flag and carried pictures of King Abdullah.



Traffic backed up where the demonstrators spilled into the street, but many of the vehicles carried flag-waving demonstrators as well, their drivers blaring horns as they passed the scene. The demonstrators stayed as night fell and began to chant that al-Zarqawi, a native of Jordan, is "a lowlife."

I'm not sure how many people were a part of this demonstration (it wasn;t tens of thousands that much is for sure), however it looks promising. Over the past four years terrorists attacks in Iraq, Egypt, Indonesia, have ignited, for the most part, anti-US/Israel protests. This time the anger appears to be aimed at the responsible party, al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian born leader of the terrorist group al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Hopefully, this will signal the beginning of new era in the Middle East were people take responsibility for changing their countries and regions from within.