Word: jordanian
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...fact that Bush is holding talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki not in Baghdad, but in the comparatively tranquil Jordanian capital of Amman, has not gone unnoticed."One hundred and fifty thousand U.S. soldiers cannot secure protection for their president," mocked a Jordanian columnist, who called the choice of venue "an open admission of gross failure for Washington and its allies' project in Iraq...
...indeed be a dramatic demonstration of brotherhood if religious leaders and lay persons could join in re-tracing the route of their common ancestor, Abraham,” Carter has said, according to the project’s website.Some hope that the full retracing—beyond just the Jordanian segment—will be ready for visitors to experience soon.“If it were opening next year,” says Zaidi, “I would definitely consider doing it for a summer abroad...
...settlements including Gilo, Ma’aleh Adumim, and Givat Ze’ev, were built as a belt to insulate Jerusalem proper from further attack. When Israel gained control over the land that had been “no man’s land” since the Jordanian conquest, Israelis wasted no time in developing it. Beginning as a modest village, Gilo grew into the city it is today...
...leave and abandon the benefits of their hard labor over the last two generations. Just as it is unthinkable here that the United States should give back Texas or Arizona to Mexico, it is nearly unthinkable that Israel should give areas like Gilo, which were nothing but desert under Jordanian control, over to a Palestinian state...
...many of the same questions. Then the two would compare notes, often with a supervisor, before the first agent would return with more questions. Women traveling alone are said to get special attention because of the case of an unwitting Irish woman who in 1986 was wooed by a Jordanian terrorist who gave her a suitcase with a bomb sewn into it; El Al agents at Heathrow discovered it by questioning...