Arabic News Weekly Edition for Jordan, 8/12/2002
Weekly Edition, Jordan - Week of August 12, 2002
- Abul Ragheb visits Damascus on Monday Jordan-Syria, Politics, 8/17/2002
- Al-Sharq al-Awsat: Jordanian lawyers to defend those accused in smuggling weapons to Palestinians
The Jordanian bar association has decided to form a defendant commission to defend 10 Jordanians detained after the Jordanian authorities had arrested them for having weapons they planned to smuggle to the Palestinian territories to enable the Palestinians to escalate their resistance against Israel. Jordan-Palestine, Politics, 8/17/2002 - Jordanian King postpones legislative elections until spring, 2003 Jordan, Politics, 8/16/2002
- King Abdullah: Jordan will not talk on behalf Palestinians
The Jordanian King Abdullah II has stressed his country's stand in supporting the Palestinian people in all international forums and circles so as to restore back their lands and establish their independent state with Jerusalem as a capital. Jordan-Palestine, Politics, 8/16/2002 - French wheat for Jordan
The Jordanian government has received a French wheat shipment estimated at 5,000 tons of a total value of one million dollars. Jordan-France, Economics, 8/15/2002 - Jordanian opposition reject military maneuvers with the Americans
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Jordanian opposition parties called for abrogating the joint military maneuvers between the Jordanian and American forces which started on Monday in al-Aqaba to the south of the kingdom, considering these maneuvers as "unacceptable" under the American threats to attack Iraq and the talk on the Jordanian role as a starting point for the military operations. Jordan-USA, Military, 8/14/2002 - Jordanian King, Saudi crown prince discuss Palestinian conditions Saudi Arabia-Jordan, Politics, 8/13/2002
- Jordanian authorities expel Saudi Sheikh Salman al-Odeh
A Jordanian official stressed on Monday that the Jordanian authorities expelled the Saudi Sheikh Salman al-Odeh by the end of last week just one hour before a lecture he was due to deliver at the vocational trade union complex in Amman under the title "the Islam of Jihad or terrorism?" Jordan, Politics, 8/13/2002 - Jordanian- American military maneuvers start in Aqaba
Jordanian and American forces have started joint maneuvers on Monday immediately following the arrival of the American forces in Aqaba port, according to a Jordanian official who stressed Jordan's care to stress that there is no connection between these maneuvers to a likely American attack against Iraq. Jordan-USA, Military, 8/13/2002 - Jordan summons its ambassador from Doha
The Jordanian- Qatari crisis has been escalated following the decision taken by Amman to summon its ambassador from Doha. Jordan-Qatar, Politics, 8/12/2002 - Jordanian Labor front calls for the elections, Muasher says striking Iraq
The Jordanian foreign minister Marwan Muasher has stressed that an American attack against Iraq will take place ( one hundred percent). Jordan, Politics, 8/12/2002