"We apologize for the inconvenience"

In an unprecedented move Al-Zarqawi apologized for the Nov. 9 bombings in Amman that killed 59 people and injured about 100. He said that they did not mean anything bad, did not mean to kill Muslims and did not mean to bomb a wedding party. They only meant to kill people from American and Zionist intelligence services.

Excuse me, but how do you suicide-bomb a wedding party by accident? It's not like our (the US) guys who drop bombs down from planes, and, great map-readers that they are, occasionally drop a bomb or two on Iran instead of Iraq. What happened to the four suicide bombers? Did they, like, mean to go to Israel, and then were unable to read the map and unwilling to ask for directions? Or did they decide that the wedding party was in fact CIA and Mossad meeting in disguise?

In order to point out his good will and underline that he really did not mean anything bad, Al-Zarqawi told all the good Muslims of Jordan to stay away from hotels, embassies, tourist sites, the Dead sea and the city of Aqaba, which are all sites where he in fact does mean to do something bad. He also promised to cut off the king's head. Meaning nothing bad, again.

"We want to assure you that ... you are more beloved to us than ourselves," Al-Zarqawi said, addressing Jordanians. Somehow this is not very reassuring, coming from people who tend to blow themselves up.

On the same day as the apology was issued, Al-Zarqawi's suicide bombers murdered about 75 people in two Shia mosques in Iraq. I am sure they did not mean anything bad by that, either. After all we all know that Shia mosques in Iraq are the favorite hangouts of American and Zionist intelligence services.