All those who took part in these operations are non-Jordanians. I will not go into details now. But there are no Jordanians among them.

These are outlaws, these are terrorists, barbarians who don't really belong to any identity, any nationality.

I carried at least 20 people back and forth to the Jordan Hospital. Everybody was screaming and crying; mothers were confused. ... I was just shocked,

I never expected something like this to happen to Jordan, ... This is our Jordan, and I will fight this with my every means.

This is the whole Arab world coming on board,

This madness has reached us, and we have to deal with it,

This is a decision that Tunis has taken, at the same time we feel that it needs to be followed with a quick summit,

This culture that is mingling in our society has no justification. Our society will confront them and say, no, no matter what their cause is, be it the occupation of Iraq or Palestine. We will do everything to defend ourselves.

This is something that Jordan is not used to, ... Obviously, we are not happy about what happened and we are going to take whatever measures we can to guard against these terrorist activities.

Authorities are also putting more X-ray equipment to carry out thorough searches on vehicles,