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...Marine, Toby Studabaker, was arrested in Frankfurt. Studabaker said he would not oppose an extradition request by British police. A Seat at the Table JORDAN The new parliament convened in Amman, and for the first time in six years included representatives of the main Islamic party. King Abdullah dissolved the previous assembly when it came to the end of its term in June 2001. He postponed elections because of fears that regional tensions would bolster support for radical Islamists, who boycotted the previous election in 1997. In last month's poll, the Islamic Action Front gained 17 seats...
...liberation of Iraqis from tyranny? Only a fool would believe that was the U.S. goal, according to an overwhelming majority of Arabs whom TIME reporters surveyed in Amman and Cairo. America, they said, is fighting a war of conquest and occupation. For the most part, the war depicted in Arab media is one of subjugation and suffering for Iraqis. Admits a U.S. official: "Let's face it, if 9/11 happened tomorrow, there would be dancing in the streets...
...Jazeera and rival satellite channels did cover the celebrations that broke out once Saddam's regime crumbled, but TV watchers were not interpreting it as viewers did in the West. "The people don't really know what they're doing," says Amman sociologist Sari Nasir, explaining away the joy. "It's collective behavior." Others expressed humiliation at the walloping defeat of the Iraqi forces, as well as scorn for those who welcomed foreign tanks into the city. "To see our dignity wiped out like that, I am ashamed to be an Arab," says Cairo physician Khaled Ragab...
Though satellite dishes are common in Arab cities, many people watch TV at restaurants and cafes, where the communal mood takes shape. At the Ajyad restaurant in Amman one recent lunch hour, that mood was dark. On two 14-in. TVs, al-Jazeera carried video from a Baghdad market hit by missiles. As Iraqis pulled the mutilated dead from the rubble and the camera lingered on a boy with blood streaming from his head, waiters paused, holding their steaming plates of lamb stew. "This blood must be avenged," taxi driver Ata Ali said angrily. "We will see pictures of American...
...taken to Bagram, but an Afghan general tells TIME that he saw Mohammed taken off the helicopter, hooded and manacled. He may or may not still be there. A Jordanian official has told TIME that at the end of last week, Mohammed was being held and questioned in Amman, Jordan. U.S. sources will not comment on the claim...