A Strange Conversation with the Man on the Elevator
Lisa Donovan
Chicago Sun-Times, US
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Amman (Jordan):
Minutes before a bomb ripped through her hotel in Amman, Jordan, Wilmette native Lilian C. Medina had a brief but, in retrospect, strange conversation with the man on the elevator. "He noticed I was a Westerner, and asked where I was from. He said he was from Iraq. And that was all he said," the 32-year-old Medina said Thursday in a phone conversation with the Chicago Sun-Times from the airport in Amman, the nation's capital.
"It was kind of a strange, awkward conversation, but I didn't really think anything about it."Now Medina is concerned, with a top security official disclosing that one of the bombers spoke with an Iraqi accent and had been stopped by suspicious Grand Hyatt hotel security before detonating explosives.
She wonders if her encounter might shed light on the attack that left more than 50 people dead, including members of a wedding party in her hotel, the Radisson.
Nov 11, 2005
Lisa Donovan
Chicago Sun-Times, US
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Amman (Jordan):
Minutes before a bomb ripped through her hotel in Amman, Jordan, Wilmette native Lilian C. Medina had a brief but, in retrospect, strange conversation with the man on the elevator. "He noticed I was a Westerner, and asked where I was from. He said he was from Iraq. And that was all he said," the 32-year-old Medina said Thursday in a phone conversation with the Chicago Sun-Times from the airport in Amman, the nation's capital.
"It was kind of a strange, awkward conversation, but I didn't really think anything about it."Now Medina is concerned, with a top security official disclosing that one of the bombers spoke with an Iraqi accent and had been stopped by suspicious Grand Hyatt hotel security before detonating explosives.
She wonders if her encounter might shed light on the attack that left more than 50 people dead, including members of a wedding party in her hotel, the Radisson.
Nov 11, 2005
