Word: jordanian
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...Hussein of Iraq called the arrivals "a catastrophe befalling the Arab world." The government-run Egyptian daily al-Ahram was equally impassioned. "This is a blatant invasion," one of the paper's columnists said, blaming "American and Soviet strategies" that put the rights of Israelis above those of Palestinians. Jordanian Prime Minister Mudar Badran appeared on television last week to ask the Kremlin to "stop the emigration until peace has been established" and suggested a joint Arab mission to Moscow...
...unaware of the use of these West Bank universities, not as places of learning, but as centers of mobilization for political resistance and violence. It will no doubt come as news to most people that these universities had never existed before the Israelis came in 1967; the preceding Arab (Jordanian) occupation regime (but no one treated it as an occupation) had well understood the uses of such places and simply barred them...
...more recent decades, the Jordanian Jerusalem Times printed an open letter to Adolf Eichmann, asking him to find solace in the fact that his trial would "one day culminate in the liquidation of the remaining six million to avenge your blood...
...West German police apprehended 16 suspected terrorists but then released all but two of them in October 1988, after discovering a cache of explosives and a bomb similar to the one used to destroy Flight 103 eight weeks later. Marwan Khreesat, a Jordanian who some authorities believe assembled the Pan Am bomb, was among those set free. Published stories contend that Khreesat was also a German intelligence agent; German authorities deny...
...West German weekly Stern charged that Marwan Khreesat, a Jordanian expert in barometric explosives, was arrested in West Germany six weeks before the Lockerbie disaster, along with 15 other suspected terrorists. Fourteen, including Khreesat, were released for lack of evidence. Stern said it had learned that Khreesat had been recruited as an informant for West German intelligence, implying that was the reason he was let go. Though American officials have reportedly confirmed the story, the Bonn government flatly denied...