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(IsraelNN.com) Jordanian University lecturer Ibrahim Alloush recommended on Al-Jazeera television this week that suicide bombers be equipped with small nuclear bombs. According to a transcript provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Dr. Alloush said, "Whoever managed to get a martyrdom-seeker into Dimona, should consider how to get martyrdom-seekers into Dimona and elsewhere armed with non-conventional explosives - and perhaps even small nuclear bombs," he stated. "We should think in this direction." Alloush lived for 13 years in the United States, earning graduate degrees at Ohio University and Oklahoma State University, where he earned a doctorate in economics....

Jordanian University Lecturer Ibrahim 'Alloush Suggests Sending Suicide-Bombers Armed with "Small Nuclear Bombs" to Israel Following is an excerpt from an interview with Jordanian university lecturer Dr. Ibrahim 'Alloush, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on May 13, 2008. Dr. Ibrahim 'Alloush: Whoever managed to get a martyrdom-seeker into Dimona armed with conventional explosives should consider how to get martyrdom-seekers into Dimona and elsewhere armed with non-conventional explosives and perhaps even small nuclear bombs. We should think in this direction.

U.S. Wary Of Small Boat Terrorism As boating season approaches, the Bush administration wants to enlist America's 80 million recreational boaters to help reduce the chances that a small boat could deliver a nuclear or radiological bomb somewhere along the 95,000 miles of U.S. coastline and inland waterways. According to an April 23 intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press, "The use of a small boat as a weapon is likely to remain al Qaeda's weapon of choice in the maritime environment, given its ease in arming and deploying, low cost, and record of success." While the United States...

A Jordanian judicial official says the country's state prosecutor has charged a man with premeditated murder who is suspected of drowning his 22-year-old sister for having an extramarital affair. The official says the unidentified woman's brother beat her with the help of his family Saturday and then took her to the Dead Sea, where he drowned her. The official says the state prosecutor also charged the woman's parents and another brother Monday with assisting in the murder by knowing about it and for beating the woman before she died. He says they carried out their suspected actions after seeing an...

AMMAN - The Jordanian authorities are questioning a 22-year- old man, who allegedly killed his pregnant married sister for reasons related to family honour, the Jordan Times reported Friday, quoting official sources. The 20-year-old victim, who was not identified by officials, received three fatal bullets to the side of her head, reportedly by her brother, at her in-law's house in western Amman Wednesday night. The suspect immediately headed to the nearest police station and turned himself in, handing over the gun he used to shoot his sibling to officers on duty. "The suspect told police he had just killed his...

Jordanian authorities have banned all events marking the "Nakba," or Catastrophe, as Arabs refer to the creation of Israel 60 years ago. Several pro-Palestinian groups and Jordanian opposition parties has been planning to hold a rally in Amman on Friday. But the authorities informed the organizers of the decision to ban the event, as well as other "illegal public gatherings." The Islamic Labor Front, which was planning a major rally in the capital, condemned the ban as unconstitutional. The party expressed outrage over the decision, noting that the Jordanian government had allowed the Israeli Embassy in Amman to celebrate Israeli...

Jordan's King Abdullah II told President George W. Bush on Wednesday that stalled negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis should be based on "clear grounds and fixed timetables." Bush, beginning two days of Mideast diplomacy at the White House, met with the king over breakfast. It was a quick session; the king arrived and left within an hour. Later, Abdullah greeted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who also came to Washington to see Bush. They will meet on Thursday. The Palestinians and Israelis remain far apart on peace negotiations, and Abbas is seeking US help to move things forward, his spokesman...

Amman - King Abdullah II of Jordan conferred Sunday with former US president Jimmy Carter and stressed the need for 'tangible progress' in the ongoing peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. 'The monarch underscored the importance of achieving tangible progress in the peace talks between the two sides and ensuring the availability of circumstances that lead to success of the negotiating process and the setting up of an independent Palestinian state,' a royal court statement said. 'The king also stressed the significance of Israel giving up its policy of blockade and expansion of settlements,' the statement added. King Abdullah...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- About 7,000 employees of a U.N. aid agency for Palestinian refugees staged a strike in Jordan on Monday to demand pay hikes to help cover the spiraling cost of food and fuel. The one-day protest forced the closure of 177 schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which serves more than 120,000 Palestinian children under the age of 14. The agency's 24 clinics across the country were run by a skeleton staff. "The strike certainly disrupted UNRWA's services in Jordan today," agency spokesman Matar Saqer said. The agency was created after the first...

Aug. 4, 2004 21:16 | Updated Aug. 4, 2004 22:01 New Zealand passport scam takes Canadian twist By HERB KEINON The New Zealand passport flap is thickening, with Canada trying to determine whether one of the Israelis allegedly involved in the scam who managed to leave New Zealand is traveling on a stolen Canadian passport. Canadian Foreign Ministry spokesman Reynald Doiron confirmed to The Jerusalem Post that the Canadian police and other federal agencies are investigating whether Ze'ev Barkan, one of the men New Zealand suspects of involvement in the scandal but who has reportedly left the country, is traveling...

Unilateral measures taken by Israel main obstacle for peace, King Abdullah tells Rice during Amman meeting; stresses importance of increasing America's role in process Roee Nahmias and AP Published: 03.30.08, 23:24 / Israel News US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice headed to Amman from Jerusalem on Sunday to meet with Jordanian King Abdullah. The king warned that failure to achieve progress toward (Israeli-Palestinian) peace would ''threaten the region's future'', according to a statement from his palace. During his meeting with Rice Abdullah accused Israel of taking unilateral measures, particularly regarding the expansion of the West Bank settlements. According to the...

AMMAN, 28 March 2008 — Ten Jordanian lawmakers have presented a bill to the lower house of Parliament seeking the cancellation of the 1994 peace treaty with Israel, one of the lawmakers said. “We submitted the draft law to lower house speaker Abdul Hadi Majali on Wednesday,” MP Hamza Mansur, who heads the six-member parliamentary bloc of the Islamic Action Front (IAF) said. The draft law was signed by six IAF members and four pro-government deputies. The IAF has frequently called for the treaty to be abrogated but this is the first time it has put a formal request to...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney, starting a visit on Saturday to try to push forward Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, said Washington would never pressure Israel to take steps that threaten its security. Palestinians accuse Israel of undermining the U.S.-sponsored peace talks by expanding Jewish settlements, refusing to remove West Bank roadblocks and mounting offensives against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip who fire cross-border rockets into the Jewish state. "America's commitment to Israel's security is enduring and unshakable, as is Israel's right to protect itself always against terrorism, rocket attacks and other attacks from forces dedicated to Israel's destruction,"...

Jordanian court handed down jail terms of three months each on five newspaper journalists, including two prominent editors, for contempt of court and defamation, the head of the press association said on Tuesday. Tareq al-Momani, head of the group that represents press interests, conveyed a court convicted two editors and three journalists from the leading newspapers, Ad-Dustour, Al-Arab AlYawm and al-Al Rai, on March 13 for publishing offences. They remain free pending appeal, Reuters reported. "We look with concern at the passing of these sentences in opinion cases which reflects negatively on freedom of the press," Momani told Reuters. Four...

AMMAN (AFP) — A German tourist was stabbed on Friday in central Amman and hospitalised but in stable condition, Jordanian police said, as a minister ruled out terrorist motives. "A German tourist was stabbed today in the city centre near Al-Husseini mosque and was rushed to hospital," police Major Mohammed Khatib said. "The tourist underwent surgery and is now in a stable condition." A security source, who declined to be named, told AFP the victim, a 63-year-old whose name was being verified, had been stabbed with a knife. A policeman patrolling the area immediately arrested the attacker, Khatib said, adding...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors say two New York residents have been indicted on charges of trying to smuggle $500,000 from the U.S. to Jordan. Authorities say a grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging 35-year-old Hassan Abuzaitoun and 33-year-old Mohammad Alazzam with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to smuggle bulk cash from the United States. Both are naturalized U.S. citizens from Jordan residing in Yonkers, N.Y. Abuzaitoun also is charged with making false statements to federal law enforcement officers. The indictment alleges that Abuzaitoun and Alazzam transferred large quantities of cash from the...

The Jordanians had held Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi without trial for several years without trial, but could apparently find no charges to bring against him.  Earlier today, the man described as more influential in al-Qaeda than either Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri went free from the prison where he mentored Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who founded al-Qaeda in Iraq: Jordanian authorities on Wednesday released Jordanian Sheikh Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi, a leading al-Qaeda mentor, after several years imprisonment without trial, security sources said.They said Maqdisi, who was regarded as the spiritual mentor of slain al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,...

AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian authorities on Wednesday released Jordanian Sheikh Abu Mohammad al-Maqdisi, a leading al-Qaeda mentor, after several years imprisonment without trial, security sources said. They said Maqdisi, who was regarded as the spiritual mentor of slain al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, had been in solitary confinement since he was rearrested in July 2005 following his acquittal at a trial of al Qaeda sympathizers. "He was released," said one security source without elaborating on the circumstances of the release of Maqdisi. The militant Jihadi shared a cell block with Zarqawi for four years between 1995 and...

Jordan Churches slam foreign missionaries seeking to upset stable ties between Muslims, Christians. AMMAN - Jordanian Christians are up in arms over the activities of foreign missionaries in the Muslim conservative kingdom which is rich in biblical sites, including the spot where Jesus was baptised. The row erupted after the government announced last month that it had deported an unspecified number of expatriates for carrying out Christian missionary activities under the guise of charity work. The move was welcomed by several Christian figures, with many voicing concern that foreign missionaries were seeking to upset the traditionally stable ties between Muslims...

AMMAN, MARCH 10 - The Jordanian citizen who first killed his sister and her alleged lover with an automatic rifle and then surrendered to the police faces a maximum sentence of one year in prison. The man explained that he committed the crime to avenge the family honour. The double honour killing, the fourth since the beginning of the year, took place last Friday but it was reported to ANSA only today by Jordanian judicial sources. The crime was committed in Azraq (120km east of Amman). The young victim (23 years old), whose identity was not disclosed, was hit by...

Egypt and Jordan may have to temporarily take control of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank due to the Palestinian leadership's inability to curb terror activity in its territories, Pensioners' Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan, a member of the security cabinet, said on Tuesday. "The Palestinians don't have the internal ability to overpower the terrorist bodies within them. More and more, the Palestinians are losing their ability and entitlement to [establish] an independent Palestinian state," Eitan told Army Radio. Eitan's statements come at a time when Egypt and Jordan are becoming more involved in providing for the needs of the...

AMMAN (Reuters) - Vowing "Revenge against Crusaders who attack the symbol of Islam," dozens of Jordanian Islamists burned the Danish flag on Monday to protest the reprinting of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad in Danish newspapers. The Islamic Action Front, Jordan's main licensed opposition party and the political offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, demanded the government expel the Danish envoy until his government offered an official apology. "Oh government, expel the Danish ambassador: Oh Dane... listen the Prophet is the symbol of our Islam. We will die for his sake and eradicate anyone who humiliates him," chanted angry protesters in...

Eight people have been arrested in Jordan for propagating the Christian faith, according to a Saudi newspaper. Jordanian security forces arrested eight people, mostly foreigners, after they were caught distributing missionary material to Bedouin families north and east of the Jordanian capital, Amman, the Saudi daily Al-Watan reported. The authorities received information about the missionaries from local residents who said these foreigners were offering humanitarian assistance to poor Muslim families and distributing fliers promoting Christianity. Sources said they were "enticing" impoverished youngsters by paying them money and calling on them to marry foreign girls. Islam is the state religion in...

Syria 'to name Mughniyeh killer' Iranian TV said a booby-trapped car had exploded next to Mughniyeh's Syria has said it will soon present "irrefutable" proof of who was behind the killing of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh in the capital, Damascus.Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem would not discuss the ongoing investigation, but insisted the world would "soon hear the results of this mighty effort". Meanwhile, Iranian TV has broadcast a video reportedly of Tuesday's bombing. On Thursday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah blamed Israel for the blast and warned it was ready for "open war". Israel has rejected the claims, but nonetheless...

Yesterday's assassination of arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh was welcome news in Washington, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv, and, albeit quietly, Beirut and Baghdad. For Hizballah and Damascus, however, the loss of Mughniyeh -- who was a brilliant military tactician, a key contact to Tehran, and a successful political leader -- is a severe blow to their ongoing activities and operations. Early Life Imad Fayez Mughniyeh, also known as Hajj Radwan, was reportedly born in south Lebanon in 1962 and became a sniper in Yasser Arafat's forces in 1976. He has been implicated in some of the most spectacular terrorist attacks of the...

One morning last August in San Francisco, six women in pink sweaters marched up a hilly boulevard towing pink roller bags full of shoes. They unzipped the bags in front of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's house, dumped the shoes on her lawn, and went on to arrange loafers, pumps, and pink glittery sandals like hawkers at a yard sale. Anchoring their display was a pair of combat boots, placed on Pelosi's doorstep. The boots, like the other shoes, had been pulled from a dead body in Iraq—the body of Casey Sheehan, in fact, whose mother, Cindy, is running as an Independent...

JERUSALEM - A rare snowstorm swept the Middle East on Wednesday, blanketing parts of the Holy Land in white, shutting schools and sending excited children into the streets for snowball fights. The weather in Jerusalem topped local newscasts, eclipsing a government report on Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon. Men in long Arab robes pelted each other with snowballs in the Jordanian capital, Amman, and the West Bank city of Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian government, came to a standstill. "I'm originally from Gaza where snow never falls," said Bothaina Smairi, 28, who was out in Ramallah taking photographs. "The white...

ISTANBUL, January 29 (Compass Direct News) – Jordan has increased pressure on foreign Christians living in the kingdom, expelling many long-time residents over the past 13 months in what local churches see as an attack on their legitimacy. Authorities deported or refused residence permits to at least 27 expatriate Christian families and individuals in 2007, a number of them working with local churches or studying at a Christian seminary, Compass has confirmed. In all but one case, officials refused to provide written explanations for the decisions. But many of those expelled told Compass that they had been questioned by intelligence...

Jordan: A 17-year-old girl died after being strangled to death by her brother in a Palestinian refugee camp near the Jordanian town of Jerash . He was apparently angered by her absence from home. The woman, who had been married for eight months, was accused of shaming her family and killed in a so-called "honour" crime. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the second murder of its kind in a month. A Jordanian prosecutor has charged the victim’s brother, a 20-year-old man, with premeditated murder. Local newspapers reported that he had stuffed a scarf in his sister's mouth, choked her with an...

After stating in last nights republican debate that "Just because you didn’t find every Easter egg didn’t mean that it wasn’t planted”, Mike Huckabee went on to claim that Saddams WMD may have gone to Jordan. This youtube video is of Huckabee on Chris Mathews sticking with the Jordan claim.

AMMAN, Jordan — A Jordanian man was charged Tuesday with premeditated murder for allegedly killing his 30-year-old daughter because she was dating, government officials said. The man was arrested near the Israeli border after Monday's killing, and will be detained for 14 days for questioning, said an official close to the investigation. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. The suspect, whose name was not released, confessed to the crime and told authorities he had "cleansed" his family's honor, according to a police official who requested anonymity in line with police regulations. The father suspected his...

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Jordan's King Abdullah II discussed the division of Israel's capital during a brief visit Olmert held with the monarch Thursday, the London based Al Hayat reported Friday. Quoting Jordanian sources, the prime minister and the king discussed at length issues relating to a final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. Apart from the possibility of ceding parts of Jerusalem, the two also addressed the issue of Palestinian refugees. Reportedly, during the meeting which was aimed at coordinating positions ahead of a visit by US President George W. Bush slated for next week, Abdullah told...

Brainchild of the KGB As Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime director of the Romanian espionage service (DIE), later explained, the PLO was conceived at a time when the KGB was creating “liberation front” organizations throughout the Third world. Others included the National Liberation Army of Bolivia, created in 1964 with help from Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and the National Liberation Army of Colombia, created in 1965 with help from Fidel Castro. But the PLO was the KGB’s most enduring achievement. In 1964, the first PLO Council, consisting of 422 Palestinian representatives handpicked by the KGB, approved the Soviet blueprint for a Palestinian...

Excavations in the East Jordan Land13 December 2007 This year Thomas Pola, professor for theology at TU Dortmund, and his team have continued the excavations in the East Jordan Land. With their findings on the mountain Tall adh-Dhahab (West) in the Jabbok Valley the archeologists could substantiate one assumption: everything points to the fact that the building remains from the Hellenistic and Roman era, found in 2006, were part of a yet unknown monumental building of Herod the Great (73-4 BC). This assumption is based on the floors of one of the discovered peristyle yards (yards enclosed by continuous...

US: Ex-Prosecutor Should Be Convicted By DAVID RUNK DETROIT (AP) — A former federal prosecutor and an ex-State Department investigator wanted so badly to win convictions in the nation's first major terrorism trial after the Sept. 11 attacks that they broke the law themselves, a government attorney said Tuesday. "They crossed over the line from upholding the law to violating it," Eileen Gleason told jurors in closing arguments in the case against Richard Convertino and Harry Smith III. The two have pleaded not guilty to charges of obstruction of justice, making false declarations before a court and conspiracy. The defense...

On Wednesday, I reported on the outrageous indictment of American Patriot Richard Convertino. I also linked to a longer version of my previous New York Post column about what's really going on here (Justice Dept. and U.S. Attorney's Office pandering to Muslim Extremists). Now, Rick Convertino's wife, the lovely Valerie Convertino, has an excellent op-ed piece in today's Detroit Free Press. (I disagree with her about Joe Wilson and his wife, but the rest I know to be true.) This is Val's second, well-said Free Press column on the topic. (Her first Free Press Op-Ed, regarding the events behind this...

Last update - 20:57 09/12/2007 Jordanian king urges pan-Arab stance on Israeli 'occupation' By News Agencies Tags: Walid Moallem, diplomacy Jordan's King Abdullah urged a Pan-Arab stance to end Israel's occupation of Arab lands. Abdullah held talks Sunday with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem on the latter's rare visit to Amman. The pair discussed the outcome of last month's Annapolis Middle East conference. Moallem's visit came in the wake of last month's surprise visit by King Abdullah to Damascus that seemed to have opened a new chapter in bilateral coordination on the Arab-Israeli peace process. His meeting with King Abdullah...

AMMAN (JT) - His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday directed concerned authorities to facilitate the treatment of several patients from the Gaza Strip, who are going through difficult health conditions, at Jordanian hospitals. The gesture came in light of the acute shortage in medical requirements and medicine in Gaza’s hospitals, a Royal Court official said. He announced that these authorities, including Jorda’s representation office in Gaza, are coordinating with the Palestinian and Israeli authorities to ensure the safe transportation of these patients to Jordan as soon as possible, to receive treatment and healthcare in Jordanian hospitals. The siege imposed by...

Mere suspicion of an illicit affair in Jordan often leads to "honour killings" Author: IRIN Published on Nov 26, 2007, 08:00 Women activists call for greater rights. A quarter of all women killed in Jordan for having an illicit relationship die merely because they were suspected of involvement in such a relationship, while only 15 per cent are killed after adultery is proven, a study by UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has revealed. The study was unveiled on 25 November to mark the UN global campaign entitled Sixteen Days of Activism to End Violence Against Women, organised by UNIFEM....

Jordan's King Abdullah II inaugurated a new parliament Sunday with a call on Israel to relinquish war-won Arab lands, saying that would help peace and security to prevail in the volatile Mideast. The king also urged unity among feuding Palestinian factions, saying the time has come for statehood. "We emphatically tell Israel that ending the occupation of Arab and Palestinian lands, withdrawing from there and implementing legitimate international resolutions are the only way to realize just, permanent and comprehensive peace," said the staunch US ally who maintains cordial relations with Israel under a 1994 peace treaty. Abdullah said a peaceful...

Jordan's King Hussein sent a secret message to President Richard Nixon in 1970 pleading with him to attack Syria, according to declassified documents released Wednesday by the former president's library. President Nixon works at his desk in the Oval Office in a June 1972 photograph. The papers are among about 10,000 documents released by the Nixon Presidential Library, some of which offer harbingers of present-day events, such as concerns about terrorism and Saudi Arabia. Library director Timothy Naftali said the documents describe challenges such as how to get the Saudis more involved in solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, how to get...

JEDDAH, 25 November 2007 — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah yesterday called upon the followers of different faiths to uphold their shared values to promote world peace and understanding. "If different communities and cultures would turn to their great principles (taught by their religions) then they would find many things that bring them closer, keep them away from conflicts and improve their human qualities," the king said. King Abdullah made this comment while receiving Chief Executive of World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab and Middle East Director Sherif El-Diwany. He also stressed that corporate as well as individual...

Supporters of Jordan's King Abdullah II defeated the country's Islamist opposition in parliamentary elections, dropping their number of seats in parliament by nearly two-thirds, according to unofficial results released Wednesday. According to the AP, the initial returns from Tuesday's election showed that supporters of the king, mainly tribal Bedouin and centrist politicians, had secured a majority of the seats in the 110-member Chamber of Deputies. Their outcome was expected and attributed to the strong influence of family and tribal links on voting in Jordan and the inability of the Islamists to deliver on long-standing promises to improve the economic situation...

The Jordanian government's relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood has always been a difficult one - and in the closing days of the current parliamentary election campaign, the movement appears as strong as ever. The main campaign rally of the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), was an impressive event. There were thousands of people there. Men grouped at the front waved the green IAF flags which show crossed swords and a copy of the Koran. The speeches were fiery, criticising corruption in Jordan and the US and Israeli policies in the region. IAF...

Local News>>President al-Assad and King Abdullah II of Jordan hold talks on regional issues President al-Assad and King Abdullah II of Jordan hold talks on regional issuesSunday, November 18, 2007 - 09:15 PM DAMASCUS, (SANA)-President Bashar al-Assad and King Abdullah II of Jordan on Sunday underlined the importance of finding a just and comprehensive solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict based on the Arab peace initiative and international relevant resolutions to restore the occupied Arab territories in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. A final statement following a Syrian-Jordanian summit held by President al-Assad and King Abdullah II announced support to Arab,...

ISRAEL VS GOLIATH ARAB MUSLIMS' FASCIST CAMPAIGN OF GENOCIDE - AS SIMPLE AS THAT 1) Israel is ONLY about survival against the Goliath Arab Muslim that wants to eradicate it. 2) There are two causes of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The first is Arab racism, which rejects any presence that isn’t Arab in its neighborhood; the second is Islamic intolerance which leads to the same rejection. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7268 3) The big lie as IF the Arabs (that sinvce the 1960s decided to call themselves as) "Palestinians" are "natives" in the holy land the historic land of the Jews, nothing cound be...

Jordan: Militant Sentenced for Attack By JAMAL HALABY – 4 hours ago AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's military court convicted an al-Qaida militant Monday of involvement in the deadly suicide car bombing of the Jordanian Embassy in Iraq in 2003 and sentenced him to death. Muammar Ahmed Yousef al-Jaghbeer, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, was arrested in 2005 upon his return from Iraq and charged with the embassy attack, which killed 19 people. Al-Qaida in Iraq, which was then headed by Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for the attack. The court dropped charges against al-Zarqawi on Monday, citing his...

President Bush met with President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo this morning in the Oval Office. (Transcript) Later, in the White House Roosevelt Room, President Bush again urged Democrats to stop dragging their feet and send him an appropriations bill: “October the 26th is the latest date in 20 years that Congress has failed to get a single annual appropriations bill to the President's desk.” The president also spoke about the overall incompetence of this Congress, mentioning their continued efforts to expand SCHIP (the House has passed a second and even more expensive bill than the...

TEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- An Israeli scientist said ancient documents suggest a major earthquake triggered by the Dead Sea Fault is long overdue in the Middle East. Although seismologists don't know when the next big earthquake will occur, Tel Aviv University geologist Shmulik Marco said earthquake patterns recorded in historical documents indicate the region's next significant quake might be imminent. Based on the translations of hundreds of ancient records from the Vatican and other religious sources, Marco has helped determine a series of devastating earthquakes occurred across the Holy Land during the last 2,000 years. The major...

Jordan Replaces P.A. in MK Elon's Peace Plan 26 Tishrei 5768, 08 October 07 03:07 by Hillel Fendel MK Rabbi Benny Elon is reissuing his Right Road to Peace plan that calls for the Palestinian Authority to cease to exist, and be replaced by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. MK Elon, head of the National Union party and its Moledet Party faction, originally wrote the plan in May 2003 and has now updated it with references to, and lessons learned from, the Second Lebanon War, the Disengagement from Gaza, and other recent events. The plan calls for Israel, the United...