Arabic News Weekly Edition for Jordan, 7/7/2003
Weekly Edition, Jordan - Week of July 7, 2003
- Jordan: four -year imprisonment to former intelligence director
Former Jordanian chairman of intelligence, Samih al-Bateikhi, was sentenced yesterday to 8 year imprisonment decreased to 4 after he was convicted of corruption in a measure which is the first of its kind in Jordan. Jordan, Politics, 7/11/2003 - Mubarak, Abdullah inaugurate gas pipeline on July 27th
Jordanian minister of energy Muhammad al-Bayeynah said yesterday that the Jordanian King Abdullah II and the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will inaugurate on July 27th the Jordanian- Egyptian joint gas project between the two cities in Taba in Egypt and Aqaba in Jordan. Jordan-Egypt, Economics, 7/11/2003 - Syrian Jordanian talks on import of cement
Jordanian minister of trade and industry Salah Eddin al-Bashir, received in Amman yesterday a Syrian delegation headed by, Assistant Minister of Supplies and Internal Trade, Aref Haj Yousef, Aref Haj Yousef. Syria-Jordan, Economics, 7/10/2003 - Al-Riyadh: Jordan denies presence of an armed group currently on trial in Jordan
Director general of the Jordan’s state security court Col. Mahmoud Obeidat has denied the existence of an armed organization on trial in Jordan, stressing that persons who were arrested are but a group under formation but has not reached the level of an organization. Jordan, Local, 7/10/2003 - Jordan Islamists for postponing elections; foiling plan to blow up American targets
The Islamic movement in Jordan has called on the government to postpone the municipal elections which is due by the end of the current month because according to them "these elections are being held in a non- democratic and unfair law." Meantime, the Jordanian authorities announced foiling a plan to blow up American targets in Jordan including the American embassy in Amman. Jordan, Politics, 7/8/2003 - Jordanian - Saudi military talks Jordan-Saudi Arabia, Politics, 7/8/2003
- Jordan denies categorically any SARS cases Jordan, Health, 7/7/2003