Arabic News Weekly Edition for Jordan, 6/14/2004
Weekly Edition, Jordan - Week of June 14, 2004
- Jordan convicts 15 persons of cases pertinent to al-Qaida, Ansar al-Islam
The state security court in Jordan convicted in absentia some 14 persons of conspiring to attack American and Israeli interests in the country, as well as targeting officials in the state's intelligence. Jordan, Local, 6/17/2004 - Jordanian parliamentary delegation discusses in Syria the question of the detainees
News reports in Amman said that a Jordanian parliamentary delegation will visit Damascus within the few coming days to hold talks with Syrian officials to demand them releasing 270 Jordanians held in the Syrian jails. Syria-Jordan, Politics, 6/16/2004 - Amman denies the expulsion of a Jordanian delegation from Jenin
The spokeswoman for the Jordanian government Asmaa al-Khuder on Saturday denied news that a Jordanian delegation was forced to leave the Palestinian town of Jenin under the threat of members of al-Aqsa group of the Fatah Movement. Jordan-Palestine, Politics, 6/14/2004