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When the whole astonishing affair began, Khaled Meshal didn't even realize he'd been targeted. The Jordanian-based political chief of the radical Palestinian group Hamas was walking from his car to his office in Amman when two pedestrians passed close by. Meshal's driver and bodyguard, Mohammed Abu Saif, though, saw one of the men put some kind of device wrapped in cloth up to Meshal's head. And so Abu Saif jumped into the car, caught up to the two and fought them viciously until a passing police patrol arrested all three. The driver's story seemed...
...that necessitated a respirator. When local doctors could not determine the cause of his trauma, Jordanian officials began to suspect what was in fact the truth: the two men weren't tourists at all, nor were they Canadians; they were agents of Israel's spy agency Mossad, dispatched to Amman to assassinate Meshal by contaminating him with a chemical agent, apparently in retaliation for suicide bombings in Jerusalem in July and September that had taken the lives of 21 Israelis...
...dangerous to go free. They had prevailed until the early hours of last Wednesday, when Yassin was transported secretly by ambulance from an Israeli prison hospital to an airstrip in Tel Aviv. From there a Jordanian royal helicopter flew him to the King Hussein Medical Center in Amman. At 4 a.m. the Israeli army, citing his poor health, announced that Yassin had been pardoned...
...London."The hijackers simply didn't want to go back to Iraq. They would rather face the relatively luxurious British social security system with its dole and housing benefits than an Iraqi jail or Saddam's firing squad." The hijackers took over a Sudanese jetliner initially headed to Amman, Jordan and forced the pilot to fly to London after a stop in Cyprus to refuel. Gibson says it is still unclear whether the British government will jail them, grant them asylum, or do both. -->