Word: jordanian
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...president's men, so the plot goes, will again grab power. One chain-smoking Hamas commander, hiding in a safehouse from Israeli hunters, says that his outfit had no gripe against Abbas, only against those "corrupted leaders of Fatah who have turned into agents of American, Israeli, Egyptian, and Jordanian intelligence services...
...planned. But these days it takes more than a visit from the American President to shock them. Coverage of Bush's arrival competed with continuing media coverage of World Cup soccer for the attention of Iraqis. And after the electric response last week to the death of Jordanian arch-terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the news of Bush's first visit in nearly three years was met with little excitement...
...Both the Iraqi government and Washington recognize that the opportunity to take advantage of the death of Zarqawi won't last long. It's still not known whether Zarqawi was betrayed by less extreme elements within the insurgency. But if the Jordanian's death signals a fracturing or softening of the insurgency, now is clearly the time to exploit that weakness in pursuit of the long-running strategy of splitting off homegrown Sunni nationalists from foreign fighters and hard-core Baathists...
...dead ends, Bush wisely shunned any predictions about how much good would come from al-Zarqawi's elimination. But the sense of elation in the U.S. command was impossible to contain. With his penchant for videotaped beheadings, spectacular suicide mass killings and Houdini-style escapes from U.S. pursuers, the Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi had become the face of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq, complete with a $25 million bounty on his head. Bush had all but branded him Hitler, referring to him more than 100 times in speeches as wanting to "sow as much havoc as possible" and "destroy American...
...Zarqawi's terrorist bombs kill 60 in three Jordanian hotels...