Woman Suicide Bomber Appears on JTV

Saijida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi makes a confession on Jordanian television. An Iraqi woman authorities believe intended to blow herself up in Wednesday’s attacks on hotels in Amman, Jordan, has been detained by police. Saijida Mubarak Atrous...

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Amman Post Attacks News Clippings

Rami Khouri wrote an interesting piece about why Jordan was attacked on Wednesday, in relation to America’s occupation of Iraq next door. And while Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi condemned last week’s bombings...

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Amman Protests: Important Slogans! Important Messages!

The power of a cool slogan. Messages that ordinary citizens communicate with, using some cardboard and a permanent marker to issue a permanent statement to the world. Here are some of the ones I found most interesting that have popped up in protests...

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Zarqa: The Word on the Street

ZARQA, Jordan – In this rundown industrial town where the al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was born, residents expressed anger, skepticism and dismay Saturday that one of their own could be behind Amman’s triple bombings that killed...

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Jordan’s Security is Going to a Whole Other Level

AMMAN â?? Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher said Thursday that security measures will be intensified throughout the Kingdom with new equipment to be installed in all major hotels and public buildings. “We plan to install metal detectors...

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When a Queen Cries…

Today on campus a classmate said to me “I saw your queen crying yesterday”. I honestly didn’t know what she was talking about. The past 48 hours or so I’ve been scrolling online through a sea of pictures, most of them...

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