Word: jordanians
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...sought contacts in Jordan but conducted no business there yet. U.S. workers might also benefit as some American companies that manufacture goods for export to the Middle East shift their plants from Europe back home to take advantage of the agreement. The impact will be far more significant for Jordanian exporters of pharmaceuticals and textiles. Pharmaceutical companies--"young but strong," according to one observer--hope to make up on the world stage business lost after the adoption of international intellectual-property conventions. Clothing manufacturer Al-Zay, based in Amman, will export Italian-style men's suits to U.S. department stores...
...FOILED A tip to Jordanian intelligence led to raids and confessions...
...Hijazi had listed Al-Marabh as his emergency contact at work; both men used to drive for Boston cab companies. Hijazi is now jailed in Jordan for his alleged role in a plot to blow up a hotel filled with Americans and Israelis on New Year's Day 2000. Jordanian officials say that the plot was backed by the bin Laden organization and that Hijazi admits he was trained in bin Laden camps in Afghanistan. U.S. Customs Service agents assisting Jordanian prosecutors found documents showing Al-Marabh wired money to Hijazi in Jordan...
Things could get dicey for young King Abdullah, Jordan's inexperienced ruler. Islamic hard-liners already have a presence in the Jordanian parliament, entirely apart from the healthy grass-roots presence they enjoy in the country as a whole. Jordan, whose population is 65% Palestinian by birth or descent, experienced street demonstrations during the recent fighting between Israel and the Palestinians. If the U.S. broadens the scope of its upcoming military action and decides to tackle Iraq or Lebanon as well, Abdullah could see plenty of anger in his streets. Containing the unrest will be essential if he hopes...
...least rattle him into a panic) and also expose individuals who may be unknowing accomplices. In 1986, El Al security at London's Heathrow airport discovered a bomb sewn into the suitcase of an unwitting Irish woman after she revealed that she had had a romance with a Jordanian, who had bought...