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...classified communications network: U.S. intelligence sources had pinpointed the whereabouts of Saddam and his top military leaders in Baghdad; Administration officials told TIME that the intelligence was gleaned from multiple sources, including electronic eavesdropping and reports from a single Iraqi official who had recently turned on Saddam. A senior Jordanian official says tips were also passed to the U.S. by a Jordanian diplomat and Egyptian intelligence agents, who claimed they had identified Saddam's exact location. For days, a senior White House aide says, the CIA had been conducting an all-sources operation to try to track Saddam's movements...
...helicopter to the American air base at Bagram, Afghanistan, north of Kabul. U.S. sources will not confirm that Mohammed was taken to Bagram, but an Afghan general tells TIME that he saw Mohammed taken off the helicopter, hooded and manacled. He may or may not still be there. A Jordanian official has told TIME that at the end of last week, Mohammed was being held and questioned in Amman, Jordan. U.S. sources will not comment on the claim...
Oren gave a detailed description of the events leading up to the war, from the failure of American ambassador Wally Barbour to deliver a letter that would have prevented a Jordanian raid, to an Israeli offensive. That action, narrow in its initial scope, ultimately became an all-out attack against neighboring Arab states...
...this is the best-case scenario. To develop these linkages, foreign students say they need guidance. One Jordanian graduate, Mohamed Al-Ississ ’00, is enrolled at Harvard Business School but is unable to matriculate due to heightened post 9/11 customs procedures for Arabs and Muslims, and is currently working in Amman in the Jordanian Ministry of Industry. “It would be extremely [helpful] if the Office of Career Services (OCS) actively [sought] to help students find adequate employment opportunities in their home region,” he says. “I personally was seeking...
...ties current? Powell claimed that Baghdad "harbors a deadly terrorist network" headed by an al-Qaeda operative named Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. A Jordanian, al-Zarqawi, 36, last year had a leg amputated in Baghdad after he was wounded in the war in Afghanistan. During al-Zarqawi's two-month stay in Baghdad, Powell alleged, two dozen "al-Qaeda affiliates" established a cell in the city. According to Powell, al-Zarqawi, whose whereabouts are unknown, provided weapons and money to the murderers of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Jordan last October. Powell showed the U.N. a satellite photo...