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...president of the Society of Arab Students,Radi M. Annab '95, said he also thought Peresspoke will But Annab said he disagreed with Peres'idea of a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation...
Rejecting the platform of anti-Zionist Islamic militants, Jordanian voters drastically reduced the fundamentalists' seats in parliament -- from 32 to 18 in the 80-member lower house -- and gave King Hussein a large majority to pursue his pro-peace policies. Another notable victor was Toujan Faisal, a strong feminist who will be the first woman to serve in the parliament...
...chest pocket of his navy-blue uniform, Captain Amer Mohamed Abdel-Kader still wears the paratrooper's wings he earned by skydiving out of Jordanian army planes as a member of the Badr Brigade of the Palestine Liberation Army, the military wing of the P.L.O. Under the terms of the peace agreement signed by Israel and the P.L.O., Captain Abdel-Kader is one of hundreds of Palestinian soldiers training in Jordan and Egypt for police duty in soon-to- be-autonomous Jericho and the Gaza Strip. Lectures on courtroom law and fingerprinting may seem banal for men who until last...
...organizations provided a pipeline for volunteers, funding and relief workers. One was the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, and the other was the World Muslim League, supported by Saudi Arabia. Linked to them were smaller groups of activists and influential individuals, including charismatic recruiter Abdullah Azzam, a Jordanian-born Palestinian who brought in hundreds of zealous volunteers, and his New York-based agent, Mustafa Shalabi, who ran the Alkifar Refugee Center in Brooklyn, known as "the Jihad office." Both Azzam and Shalabi were murdered in 1991. Another key figure was Saudi financier Osama bin Laden, who fought with...
...Palestinians by mid-November and complete the task within two months. The Gaza Strip is a well-defined beachfront rectangle of 140 sq. mi. But what, exactly, is the Jericho area? The municipal bounds of the city encompass only 10 sq. mi., but the Jericho district, as defined by Jordanian law that was in effect before Israel's 1967 conquest, comprises 146 sq. mi. The Palestinians want the autonomous zone to contain much of that territory, including the wood-planked Allenby bridge, one of two border crossings into Jordan. The Israelis insist that the boundaries should be more circumscribed...