Jordan denies missile attacks against former minister
Jordan, Local, 12/28/1999

Jordanian Deputy Premier and Information Minister Aymen al-Majali has denied a report in a Jordanian daily that the house of former Jordanian Minister of Water and Irrigation Munzir Haddadin was exposed to missile attacks that resulted in a fire in his house.

In a statement to the Jordanian Parliament on Sunday evening, al-Majali said what happened at Haddadin's house was an ordinary fire, and there was no attack by rockets. He added that security investigations revealed that the reason for the fire was internal rather than external.

For his part, a police official in the Jordanian capital, Amman, denied that the fire at Haddadin's house was a result of the firing of two shells against the house, explaining that the house has not been attacked by any sort of military weapons.

Haddadin had announced in statements to the Jordanian daily al-Arab al-Youm that the fire took place after the upper floor of his house was rocketed by two shells.

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