Arabic News Front Page for 6/30/1997
Today's Headlines
- Saddam improving top units
Despite of seven years of United Nations sanctions, six Saddam Hussien's elite Republican Guard divisions are armed and equipped at roughly 80 percent of typical American army divisions, the commander of US forces in the Middle East said. Iraq, Politics, 6/30/1997 - Jordan hangs two women
Jordan has hanged two women who shot dead an alleged wife-beater and hid his dismembered body in a cesspool. Jordan, Local, 6/30/1997 - Jordan burns $30 million us in drugs
Jordan's anti-drug brigade set fire to hundreds of kilos of narcotics worth around $30 million US. Jordan, Local, 6/30/1997 - Bomb kills four Algerian women
A bomb exploded on a busy Algiers street on June 26 killing four women, the latest victims in an upsurge of Islamic violence in Algeria. Algeria, Local, 6/30/1997