A 19 year old Jordanian citizen was arrested this afternoon for attempting to bomb Fountain Place, a 60 story office tower in downtown Dallas. Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, who was in the US illegally, ...
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Apparently this student from Jordan was arrested for sending a threatening letter to Jewish institutions in Chicago area. He apparently listed a variety of Jewish institutions that would be bombed. His finger print was on the sent letter but he denies any involvement....
A suspected terrorist with "direct links" to Al-Qaeda, and held in a British jail since 1999 for allegedly planning to bomb Los Angeles International Airport, has been released on bail. The name of the man, of...
Should the cases be heard in the courts it could expose even more details of the abuses at Abu Ghraib. The plaintiff's lawyers keep the door open for more CACI workers being sued and more former prisoners adding...
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" Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says an appeal will be lodged against a ruling preventing the deportation of radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada from the UK. Ms Smith said she was "disappointed" at the decision to grant him bail. Abu Qatada, 47, was freed from Long Lartin...
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"The campaign, entitled "The Messenger Unites Us," came into existence after a dozen Danish papers reprinted cartoons deemed blasphemous to the Prophet Mohammed in February.The controversial pictures were originally printed by the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten in September...
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Another Obvious Clue, for the Obviously CluelessOpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCertainly another story for the No Sh*t Sherlock Files, for Idiocy, whereby a Jordanian National from Surrey is...
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""On this date two years ago, the hands of the coward terrorist had stabbed us from the back in a bloody terrorists attack in Amman, the Capital of Jordan, where the terrorists spilled out their hatred by killing innocent people from various countries and different...
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The Middle East is famous for many things, unfortunately most prominently for conflict. However, the street food, whether it be falafal or schwarma is notorious too. Jordanian health officials, however, have had...
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This report confirms suspicions that Arafat did not die naturally. However, the basis of the doctor's conclusion is about as vague as the assertion. The doctor reportedly did not have access to Ara fat while he...
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"Saddam Hussein’s eldest daughter Raghad joined a sit-in today in the Jordanian capital Amman as protests grew around the Arab world over the hanging of Iraq’s former leader Saddam Hussein and the grim video images of the execution that have appeared online.
In Amman,...
Arab pilgrims in Mecca expressed outrage on Saturday that Iraqi authorities had chosen to execute former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on a major religious holiday, saying it was an insult to Muslims.
Sunni Arabs at the haj were shocked at Saddam's hanging which followed his...
"Regardless of the latest hastily negotiated truce, the battle between nationalist Fatah and Islamist Hamas seems to be gaining intensity. Palestinian politics, always self-destructive, has reached new heights of internal conflict, pulling the population deeper into disorder...