Word: jordanian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...barely mentioned in the public sessions, aside from a few perfunctory Islamic calls for immediate U.S. withdrawal. It was a different story in the private conversations in the corridors. "Obama and Hillary Clinton can't be serious about leaving Iraq in 12 to 16 months," a well-informed Jordanian said to me. "If you do that, there will be chaos. The Turks will attack the north. The Iranians will take over the south." I pointed out that the same may or may not be true if we leave in 10 ... or 100 years, as John McCain has defiantly suggested...
Faeza's adjustment has been slow. At first she barely left the apartment. She had always used her Jordanian cell phone as a clock, and when its battery petered out because her charger didn't fit the wall socket, she lost all track of time. She didn't know how to let her relatives know she had arrived safely in the U.S. Police patrol cars appeared regularly at the complex, and loud fights broke out in the hallways. Even the boisterous schoolkids getting off the bus, clowning and shrieking, spooked...
Reports of Iraqi refugees returning to Baghdad fill Adnan and Noora Awadi with envy and nostalgia. The young couple--whose names have been changed, since they fear reprisals if quoted in the media--fled to the Jordanian capital, Amman, in the summer of 2006 and are yearning to go back to their leafy street in al-Yarmouk, a middle-class neighborhood in Baghdad. Noora, 28, misses their modest one-story home so much, she is sentimental even about its defects. "The sink in the kitchen is cracked, there are termites everywhere, and sometimes in the summer we can smell...
...Those in East Jerusalem look to the Israeli side for work opportunities and health care. The mere rumor that Israelis and Palestinians might reach an accord in Annapolis prompted a flood of applicants for Israeli citizenship, but only a lucky few will get it; most East Jerusalem Arabs have Jordanian passports. The rush was telling; however much Arabs may feel harassed by Israelis, they fear that annexation of East Jerusalem by the current thuggish Palestinian leadership would lead to a spillover of the chaos and murderous political feuds that plague the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with rival militias fighting...
...Those travel plans are now on hold. Driving on a highway in northern England this weekend, with his Jordanian wife Rawan and their young son in the car alongside him, Asha was picked up by police on suspicion of involvement in the attempted bombings of targets in London and Glasgow. His wife was also detained. Police are currently questioning Asha at a central London police station. Neither has been charged...