Analyzing the Amman Attacks from al-Qaeda's Perspective / Terrorism Focus, Vol 2 No. 22, 29 Nov 2005

http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369840
Michael Scheuer
"Two weeks after al-Zarqawi's strike, much public and official commentary in the West concluded that al-Qaeda had suffered a self-inflicted strategic defeat because of the Amman attacks. This article is not meant to refute these conclusions, but rather to suggest that on the basis of al-Qaeda's strategic design for war against America and its allies, an assessment of the facts pertinent to the Amman attacks can yield a result far different from that so far arrived at in the West. In the first instance, al-Qaeda's organizational strength appears to have emerged unscathed from the attacks. "