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...anecdotal evidence is adding up: Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets over the weekend, waving Jordanian banners, rather than burning American and Israeli flags, and voicing outrage against Zarqawi's terrorism. Among the first to condemn the hotel attacks was the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan's most influential fundamentalist group. "What jihad is this," asked Jordanian columnist Taher Adwan, "when a young Arab man enters a hall where a wedding of Jordanian citizens is taking place to inflict the heaviest losses in life?" A similar local backlash against terrorism occurred when al-Qaeda attacks killed civilians in Saudi Arabia, Morocco...
...long-running struggle with Jordan's King Abdullah II. Their duel began immediately after Abdullah ascended the throne in 1999, when he freed the Jordanian militant from prison in a general amnesty. Zarqawi, 39, had been jailed in the early 1990s on sedition charges after joining an Islamic fundamentalist group. He repaid Abdullah's royal gesture by starting a relentless terrorism campaign against Jordanian monarchy. In turn, Abdullah has stood firm against Islamic extremism and sought to bring Zarqawi to justice, cooperating ever more closely with the Bush administration's War on Terrorism...
...guys all the same.") He has to keep the arrangement semisecret because polygamy is illegal in Utah and banned by the mainstream Mormon Church, or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Oh, and one of his fathers-in-law (Harry Dean Stanton), the patriarch of a fundamentalist polygamist compound, is shaking him down for a cut of his hardware business. The Osmond family these Utahans...
...send him on a trip--bye-bye, Hariri." The witness said conspirators then held meetings at various locales in Damascus, including Shawkat's office. And the witness told investigators that two weeks before the assassination, Shawkat held a final planning session at his own residence and forced a Lebanese fundamentalist being used as a decoy to videotape the claim of responsibility that was broadcast on al-Jazeera the day of Hariri's death...
...attractive, married 27-year-old, Davis says he was never drawn sexually to men. Rather, he represents a new group of young, straight Christians who are criticizing older Evangelicals for long denouncing gays without offering them what Davis calls "healing." Davis looks nothing like a stereotypical Fundamentalist; he wears spiky hair, Fauvist T shirts, an easy smile. He first noticed the wave of young people coming out when he was pastor of a student church at Virginia Tech. I asked how his group could succeed when homosexuality has been so depathologized among kids. "GLSEN has 3,000 GSAs...