Arabic News Weekly Edition for Jordan, 9/2/2002
Weekly Edition, Jordan - Week of September 2, 2002
- Yediot Ahronot: Iraq, Jordan to be converted into one Hashimite Kingdom
According to one source, the research reaches the result that the military attack against Iraq is "a tactical objective," Saudi Arabia is "the strategic objective" and Egypt is "the big prize." This means, the correspondent says, that this group inside the American administration sees that changing the regime in the three said countries is a strategic objective and converting them into liberal countries inclined to the West would limit their ability to threaten the US through its interests in the Arab states. Iraq-Jordan, Politics, 9/7/2002 - Maneuvers end in Jordan, Americans leave within days
The Jordanian Minister of Information Muhammad al-Edwan announced yesterday that the American forces which took part in the maneuvers with the Jordanian forces since three weeks started to leave the Jordanian territories as from Thursday after the end of the maneuvers, which were strongly criticized by the 14 Jordanian opposition parties, with the majority of them are from the Islamic movements Jordan-USA, Politics, 9/6/2002 - Jordan: releasing an accused man in a Fraud case
A Jordanian judicial source said that the state security court in Jordan decided to release Ayman al-Shamaeylah, the main accused person in the 100 million dollar banks fraud case. Jordan, Economics, 9/6/2002 - Al-Sabeel: Jordan and the Iraqi oil Jordan-Iraq, Economics, 9/5/2002
- Al-Kabareiti, the proposed UN envoy for Iraq, after Saddam
The Lebanese daily al-Nahar said yesterday, according to well-informed Arab sources, that search is being made at the meantime for an Arab figure that would play in Iraq a role similar to that played by Elakhder al-Ibraheimi in Afghanistan, as a special envoy for the UN secretary general. Iraq-Jordan, Politics, 9/4/2002 - Abul Ragheb: 43% of Jordanians are of Palestinian origin
The Jordanian prime minister Ali Abu al-Ragheb said on Monday that the Jordanians of Palestinian origin constitute 43 % of the country's population which is estimated at five million. This was expressed in the first official statement on the population structure in Jordan. Jordan, Politics, 9/3/2002 - Jordan and Israel announce project to save Dead Sea
To save the Dead Sea from further shrinkage, Jordan and Israel announced that they were pursuing a $1 billion joint project to pipe water from the Red Sea, says a feature story posted on the website of the World Summit on sustainable development. Jordan-Israel, Economics, 9/3/2002 - Fees canceled on main lines of the Jordanian Aqaba port
Jordanian naval sources said that specialized sides canceled fees at the Jordanian Aqaba port which were imposed following the incidents of September 11 in the USA. Jordan, Economics, 9/3/2002