Jordan denies show of support for Iraq, the Palestinians

Jordanian national parties and forces have strongly criticized the Jordanian minister of the interior Qaftan al-Majali over preventing the launching of "al-Tahaddi" ( challenge ) trip, where the children of Jordan would show support to the children of Iraq, which was due to be held on Wednesday, carrying symbolic aid to the Iraqi children.

The minister of the interior in Jordan did not give any justifications for banning this trip, but he just told the "Jordanian national committee in defense of Iraq" that the trip can not reach Baghdad or even leave the Jordanian borders.

The committee criticized the decision of the minister and considered the decision preventing the launching of the trip as a service to the American interests.

The committee said that a group of Jordanian youths were due to leave on a trip, in collaboration between the national committee in defense of Iraq and the Jordanian scouts society, heading for Baghdad, Iraq, carrying medicines and baby powder milk to the Iraqi children, but the Jordanian minister informed the border center to prevent this trip from leaving the Jordanian territories.

Meantime, the Jordanian minister of the interior informed the chairman of the vocational trade unions council that Jordan will not permit at any rate, the "Maseerat al-Owdeh" (march of return back) to be launched.

The Jordanian vocational trade unions had decided to carry out a massive march starting as from Amman towards the King Hussein Bridge in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in assertion of their right to return back home.