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Although a U.N. resolution requires that Iraqi assets be returned to Iraq, neither Jordan, Syria nor Lebanon has fully complied. A coalition official says Amman hopes to use the money to help Jordanian firms that did business with Saddam recoup their losses, though a senior Jordanian banking official denies it. Damascus says it does not have any of the money but has allowed a team of U.S. and Iraqi experts into Syria to investigate Saddam's finances. Meanwhile, some of the accounts in Lebanese banks remain open. "We're trying to get [those] banks to give us information...
...Other recent arrests suggest the problem goes beyond JI. Just a few hours after Arroyo paraded Refke before the press, the Bureau of Immigration's commissioner, Andrea Domingo, announced the capture of two suspected al-Qaeda operatives, both Arabs, on Philippine soil. One of them, 36-year-old Jordanian Mahmoud Afif Abdeljalil, was arrested on Sept. 25 in the city of Zamboanga while attempting to sell 14 properties owned by Alice Yabo, the second wife of Mohammed Jamal Khalifa. Khalifa is Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law. He ran a number of Islamic charities in the Philippines until...
...Bush Administration doesn't want to play along. A Jordanian official told TIME that Arafat asked Jordan's King Abdullah to implore the U.S. to reopen the lines of communication that it severed last year in response to Arafat's failure to crack down on militant Palestinian groups. But at a press conference with the King last Thursday, Bush dismissed Arafat as a potential partner and blamed him for sabotaging peace efforts by undermining Abbas. "That's why we're now stalled," Bush said...
...Ansar official who allegedly ran a terrorist camp in northern Iraq before the war, recently returned to Iraq to coordinate Ansar's activities. According to the Iraqi newspaper al-Azzaman, al-Zarqawi recently sent a letter to members of his tribe in Jordan, urging them to attack U.S. and Jordanian targets...
...Iraqis expressed outrage at the perpetrators for attacking a civilian building, the bombing seemed to have fueled just as much bitterness at U.S. forces for failing to prevent the attack and coming too late to rescue the victims. Minutes after the blast, looters ransacked the embassy, tore up the Jordanian flag and stomped on a portrait of Jordanian King Abdullah's father. By the time soldiers from the 1st Armored Division arrived, some 30 minutes later, the crowd had turned hostile. "Screw you, Americans!" screamed a young Iraqi in a white T shirt. "Screw...