A suspected member of al-Qaeda in Iraq confessed on Jordanian television on Tuesday to last year murdering a Jordanian driver in Iraq and abducting two Moroccan embassy employees. The man, who identified himself as Iraqi national Ziad Khalaf al-Karbuli, said during the 15-minute tape that he shot to death Khalid Dassuki.
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/ 12 February 2006
Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants have decided to go on hunger strike, one of his Jordan-based lawyers said on Sunday. "The [former] president and his comrades have decided to stage a hunger strike to protest against the tribunal’s attempts to force them to appear" in court, Zyad Najdawi told Agence France-Presse.
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/ 11 November 2005
United Nations chief Kofi Annan was headed to Amman on Friday as Jordanians mourned victims of deadly attacks on three luxury hotels claimed by al-Qaeda, which jolted one of Washington’s staunchest Middle East allies. The death toll rose to 57 after a renowned film director died of injuries sustained in one of the blasts.
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/ 10 November 2005
Jordan said on Thursday it has arrested several suspects over hotel bombings that killed 56 people in the deadliest attacks in the kingdom’s history, claimed by homegrown extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s militants. The group of al-Zarqawi, who heads al-Qaeda’s Iraq operations, warned of more to come.
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/ 10 November 2005
Jordan was on Thursday hunting the masterminds of the worst attacks in the kingdom’s history that killed 57 people and were claimed by the group of homegrown extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The suicide attacks late on Wednesday on one of the closest United States allies in the Middle East targeted three luxury hotels in the Jordanian capital.
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/ 10 November 2005
Suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three United States-registered hotels in the Jordanian capital on Wednesday night, killing at least 57 people and wounding up to 300 in an al-Qaeda-style assault on the Arab kingdom with close ties to the US and a border with Iraq. Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher said most of those killed were Jordanians.
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/ 26 October 2005
Lawyers representing Saddam Hussein announced on Wednesday that they will suspend all contacts with the special tribunal trying the ousted Iraqi president until they are given better security. The decision follows the killing of Saadun Janabi, an attorney representing one of Saddam’s co-defendants, a day after the opening of the trial last week.
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/ 20 October 2005
Saddam Hussein’s Jordan-based legal team will meet his Iraqi lawyer soon to draw up a battle plan for his next court appearance, one of the lawyers said on Thursday. Issam Ghazzawi confirmed that the former dictator’s Iraqi courtroom lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi is expected in Amman in the next 24 hours to brief the team on the trial, which was adjourned until November 28.
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/ 18 October 2005
Saddam Hussein’s rights have been ”violated” in the legal process following his capture, one of his top United States lawyers said on Tuesday on the eve of the deposed Iraqi leader’s trial opening on charges of ordering the massacre of 143 countrymen two decades ago.
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) said on Saturday it is committed to support the stability of the world economy by responding to the world’s demand for oil, and support sustainable development in the Middle East. Opec’s president was addressing the Dead Sea summit of the World Economic Forum in Jordan.
A seven-year-old Jordanian boy stole his father’s hard-earned salary to buy prepaid phone cards to vote for his favourite female candidate on a television reality show, Petra news agency reported on Sunday. The boy was enamoured by Algerian candidate Salma al-Ghazali, who appears on the <i>Star Academy</i> reality show.
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/ 7 February 2005
A budding romance between a Jordanian man and woman turned into an ugly public divorce when the couple found out that they were in fact man and wife, state media reported on Sunday. Separated for several months, boredom and chance briefly reunited Bakr Melhem and his wife, Sanaa, in an internet chat room.
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/ 31 October 2004
Japan was making arrangements on Sunday to fly the decapitated body of a 24-year-old Japanese tourist killed in Iraq to Kuwait for his return home, a senior Japanese official told reporters in Jordan. Shosei Koda’s head and decapitated body with bound hands and feet was found wrapped in a United States flag on Saturday in Baghdad.
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/ 15 September 2004
A young Jordanian man is facing jail after donning a veil and joining an all-female wedding party in order to win a bet, the official Petra agency reported on Wednesday. The man, identified only by his first name Salim, wore a black coat and a veil to get into the party, where female guests were dancing and singing.
Saddam Hussein’s defence team, which has not yet been allowed to enter Iraq, on Thursday again slammed as ”illegal” the Iraqi special tribunal trying the deposed dictator. ”This court is illegal since it was designated by an illegal authority, created by the occupation,” one of the lawyers said.
A fence separating Israel from the West Bank is ”racist” and a symbol of the lack of coexistence between Israel and the Palestinians, the Palestinian prime minister said on Wednesday, a day after US President George Bush backed off from overt criticism of the security barrier.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Monday discussed ways to develop the flagging Palestinian economy as officials from its private and public sector blamed Israeli security measures for their woes.
”Important progress” was made at a Middle East peace summit in Jordan on Wednesday, US President George Bush said, tasking a senior diplomat to monitor Israeli and Palestinian compliance to a peace roadmap.
SEVEN million children below the age of five suffer from malnutrition and stunted growth in the Middle East and North African countries, a United Nations children’s fund report said on Thursday.