Arabic News Daily Page for 2/23/2004
Daily Edition - Monday, February 23, 2004
- Jordan seeks to abrogate an Israeli decision for expelling thousands of Palestinians
The spokeswoman for the Jordanian government, Asmaa al-Khuder, stressed that Jordan got positive indicators through diplomatic contacts with the Israeli government stating the initial consent of the Israeli government to back away from a preliminary decision that bans the travel of citizens of the occupied territories only by Palestinian passports as from the first of March. Jordan-Israel, Politics, 2/23/2004 - UN issues its report on Iraq today; Abdul Hamid denies demands of Jordanian, Kuwaiti lands
Current President of the Interim governing council in Iraq Mohsin Abdul Hamid denied statements attributed to him that he will demand Jordan and Kuwait to restore back Iraqi lands offered to them by the former regime. Iraq-UN, Politics, 2/23/2004 - Riyadh confirms that one wanted was killed
Saudi Arabia's ministry of the interior stressed that one activist of al-Qaida organization listed on the list of 24 wanted in the kingdom was killed. Saudi Arabia, Local, 2/23/2004 - Ten members of underground extremist group get 8 years in jail
The court of appeal of Rabat on Friday handed down a ten-year prison sentence against ten members of the underground extremist group Salafia Jihadia. Morocco, Local, 2/23/2004 - US ambassador launches construction of American school in Casablanca suburb
US ambassador to Rabat, Thomas Riley, on Friday laid the foundation stone of an American school in Dar Bouazza, a Casablanca suburb. Morocco-USA, Local, 2/23/2004