Monday, March 28, 2011
Inside Story - Unrest in Jordan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcaABSH8Tx0
Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on Mar 27, 2011
On the 24th of this month, Jordanians demanding democratic reforms established a tent camp in Amman's Jamal Abdel Nasser roundabout. Naming their movement after the date, March 24, the protesters said the sit-in would continue until their call for political change was met. But within 24 hours clashes were underway at the camp as riot police and civilians identified as government supporters attacked the demonstrators - killing at least two and injuring dozens more. One of the demonstrators' demands is that the prime minister, Marouf al-Bakhit, resign, but he has refused to do so and has claimed that the protests are being orchestrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and its Jordanian offshoot the Islamic Action Front. On this episode, we ask what the future holds for the Jordanian government and the king who appointed it.
Labels: Al Jazeera, Jordan
Friday, March 25, 2011
Roughly 100 people were injured in Amman protests as Jordan – perhaps emboldened by the lack of retribution suffered by other US allies – became the latest Arab country to crack down hard.
Christian Science Monitor
Amman, Jordan
Jordan today became the latest Arab country to adopt violent repression as its response to protest – inspired, perhaps, by seeing similar tactic used by US allies like Bahrain and Yemen with little retribution from Washington.
This afternoon, police shut down a major protest camp in Amman, using water cannons. Mubarak-style thugs, widely believed to be hired by the regime, attacked the protesters with sticks and stones. Local news sources are reporting one death and nearly 100 injured.
"It was a disaster," says Fakher Daas, a leader from Jordan's Popular Unity Party who was in the camp. "They surrounded us from the four [sides], thugs and policemen and darak [riot police]. … Thugs were throwing stones from high buildings. … We ran away, but there was nowhere to run."
Later, there were multiple eyewitness reports of police surrounding hospitals and arresting patients or those trying to enter...[Full Article]
Labels: Bahrain, Jordan, Syria, Yemen
AMMAN, Jordan -- Scores of people were injured Friday as Jordanian protesters demanding reforms clashed with government supporters, pelting each other with stones, as unrest intensified in this key U.S. ally.
Police fired water cannons to disperse the crowd, then hundreds of riot police, some wearing masks, stormed the area, hitting anti-government demonstrators with batons and dragging at least a dozen into a nearby government building...[Full Article]
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Jordan's King Abdullah II fired his government Tuesday in the wake of street protests and asked an ex-prime minister to form a new Cabinet, ordering him to launch immediate political reforms.
The dismissal follows several large protests across Jordan- inspired by similar demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt - calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Samir Rifai, who is blamed for a rise in fuel and food prices and slowed political reforms...
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Protesters gather across the country, demanding the prime minister step down.
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| Thousands took to the street across Jordan demanding the prime minister step down[Reuters] |
Thousands of people in Jordan have taken to the streets in protests, demanding the country's prime minister step down, and the government curb rising prices, inflation and unemployment.
In the third consecutive Friday of protests, about 3,500 opposition activists from Jordan's main Islamist opposition group, trade unions and leftist organisations gathered in the capital, waving colourful banners reading: "Send the corrupt guys to court"...
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Jordanian Dupe Provocateured By FBI To Be Sentenced Today
A federal judge is likely to question the confessed would-be bomber of a downtown Dallas skyscraper about a letter he wrote claiming the FBI entrapped him.
Hosam "Sam" Smadi, whose sentencing in federal court is today, could face decades in prison. The 20-year-old Jordanian told the judge in May that he knowingly plotted to blow up the Fountain Place building using what turned out to be a fake device after he was caught in an FBI sting.
But he wrote in a letter to The Dallas Morning News that "I would never do this if the intelligence didn't wash my brain."
In his letter, written in halting English, Smadi says he was led astray. "They implant in my mind to commit crime design by them to take my life from me," he wrote. "Everything was design like al Qaeda because the failure of the intelligence to get Osama bin Laden...
Jordanian arrested in US was manipulated by FBI - father
JordanTimes.com
...The press release said that Hosam Smadi was discovered by the FBI “espousing a desire to commit significant acts of violence. Smadi stood out because of his vehement intention to actually conduct terror attacks in the US”.
According to the press release, on July 21, 2009, Smadi made contact with an undercover FBI agent posing as an Al Qaeda operative. In late August, while meeting with one of the undercover agents in Dallas, Smadi discussed the logistics and timing of the bombing, stating that he would have preferred to carry out the attack on “September 11”, but decided to wait until after the month of Ramadan, which ended on September 20.
The offence of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction carries, upon conviction, a maximum statutory sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to US law, the press release said.
Maher Smadi, however, accused the FBI of “entrapping” his son, provoking him to follow through on actions he would not have taken without the encouragement of the undercover agents.
“Instead of encouraging my son to become a terrorist, the FBI should have focused on changing his thoughts and putting him on the right track again. All they did was to add a new name to the list of terrorists,” he said...
[Full Article][Webmaster - Here it is...the same template over and over again... This is the way the Feds always do it...they locate a vulnerable target, follow them and then provocateur them into trying to commit some act of violence. Fortunately, this time they did not let it go through with a live bomb like the FBI did in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Yes, that's right...The FBI Allowed the 1993 WTC Bombing to Happen. Always remember, if anyone tries to induce or encourage you to commit acts of violence, or make statements espousing those intentions...they are probably a Federal agent or informant trying to provocateur you.]
Labels: bomb, Dallas, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jordan, provocateur, Texas
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