Word: jordanian
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...Baghdad's major thoroughfares--within mortar range of the U.S. embassy--is an indication of just how much of the country is beyond the control of U.S. forces and the new Iraqi government. It also reflects the extent to which jihadis linked to al-Zarqawi, 37, the Jordanian believed to be al-Qaeda's chief operative in Iraq, have become the driving forces behind the insurgency and are expanding its zone of influence. Though the U.S. has long believed that al-Zarqawi's group is using Fallujah as a base to stage operations, the militants appear to have also consolidated...
...Mount's southern wall has started to warp much faster, and a section of the eastern wall has begun to lean outward. "There's an immediate danger of collapse in the eastern and southern walls," says Shuka Dorfman, head of the Antiquities Authority. Awwad says a team of Jordanian experts is fixing the problem in the southern wall and will soon move onto the eastern wall. "My job is to keep and preserve, not to destroy and change the site," says Awwad. "I don't have anything to hide." Israeli archaeologists want Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to force the Waqf...
...world - a result of its traditional backing for Arab causes and its opposition to the Iraq war - into a positive outcome. "Because of France's distinguished position in rejecting the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq, we appeal to the people who kidnapped the journalists to spare their lives," the Jordanian Islamic Action Front declared in a rare display of unity with the national government. Negotiating a release, though, is a tricky business. "The problem is, the nature and control of these groups are evolving and radicalizing all the time," says French terror expert Roland Jacquard, who has worked...
...resistance has its divisions--at least in part because jihadist leaders allied to al-Qaeda--linked Jordanian terrorist Abu Mousab alZarqawi, a proponent of the unified command, seem to be trying to take control. Militant sources tell TIME that their rise has alienated some insurgents, especially the Baathists and nationalists, who resent the influence of foreigners. Whoever wins, the more disturbing development is that some Iraqi jihadis, hoping to take their fight beyond Iraq's borders, are threatening to launch a terrorist campaign in the U.S. "If America continues to shield its people from the truth," says an al-Zarqawi...
...tension between Zarqawi and nationalist insurgents was made evident some months ago in the letter intercepted ostensibly from the Jordanian to Osama bin Laden, in which he complained that the Iraqis were averse to suicide attacks and that they wanted to go home to their wives after a day's fighting. In other words, Zarqawi complained that the Iraqi insurgents actually imagined a future for themselves. And that being the case, they'd be averse both to suicide attacks and also to tactics such as the indiscriminate killing of Shiites (as advocated by Zarqawi) that would imperil prospects for holding...