| March 19, 2008 | - Senator John McCain visited Jordan and told reporters that it was “common knowledge and has been reported in the media that Al Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran.” Senator Joe Lieberman was seen whispering into McCain's ear, after which McCain apologized. “The Iranians are training extremists,” he explained. “Not Al Qaeda.” Later, in Jerusalem, a fistfight among photographers, soldiers, police officers, and tourists erupted at McCain's Western Wall photo shoot, resulting in damage to several pairs of sunglasses.
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Washington Post
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New York Times
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| August 23, 2007 | - Returning from a three-day trip to Iraq and Jordan, Senate Chairman of the Armed Services Carl Levin (D., Mich.) declared the Iraqi government “non-functional” and recommended that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his cabinet be replaced. “We care for our people and our constitution,” said Maliki, who was visiting Syria, “and can find friends elsewhere.”
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Washington Post
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Washington Post
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| July 16, 2007 | -
Israelis convinced Jordanians to overcome their prejudice against barn owls.
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Townhall.com
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| May 8, 2007 | - Four ethnic Albanians, a Jordanian, and a Turk were arrested for plotting to invade Fort Dix, New Jersey.
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NJ Star-Ledger
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| February 3, 2007 | -
Iraqi refugees were flooding Syria and Jordan, where they now account for 5 and 12 percent of those countries' total populations.
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AP via Yahoo!NEWS
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| January 26, 2007 | -
Ford
posted a loss of $12.7 billion for 2006, the largest in its 103-year history, and equivalent to the GDP of Jordan. Asked about his plans for the company, CEO Alan R. Mulally said, “At the top of the list, I would put dealing with reality.”
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USA Today
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NYT
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| January 1, 2007 | - King Abdullah II of Jordan complained that odors from an Israeli livestock facility were wafting into his palace on the Red Sea.
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AP via Haaretz
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| September 20, 2006 | - In Jordan, a failed suicide bomber was sentenced to be hanged.
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New York times
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| April 10, 2006 | - It was revealed that the U.S. military had mounted a propaganda campaign, targeting Iraq and the United States, intended to make Abu Muab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian leader (or possibly former leader) of Al Qaeda in Iraq, appear more powerful than he is. One document describing the campaign was called “Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia response.”
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The Washington Post
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| March 8, 2006 | - The U.S. State Department issued a report criticizing human rights abuses in China, North Korea, Iran, and Cuba. It also criticized the rights records of Jordan and Egypt, two countries where the United States has sent detainees to be interrogated. The report noted that the United States' "own journey towards liberty and justice for all has been long and difficult," and is "far from complete."
| Source 1:
The New York Times
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The Independent
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| November 10, 2005 | - In Amman, Jordan, 57 people were killed in explosions at three different hotels. “We thought it was fireworks for the wedding,” said Ahmed at the Radisson. An Iraqi woman named Sajida Rishawi later described how she, her husband, and two other Iraqis had entered Jordan on forged passports intending to blow up the hotels; while the other three suicide bombers succeeded, she explained, her exploding belt malfunctioned, so she ran.
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BBC News
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The Los Angeles Times
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| August 20, 2005 | - Peter Schoomaker, the Army's top general, revealed that the United States was developing a plan to keep at least 100,000 soldiers in Iraq through 2009. Senator Chuck Hagel (R., Nebr.) called the plan "complete folly." "It would further destabilize the Middle East," he said. "It would give Iran more influence, it would hurt Israel, it would put our allies over there in Saudi Arabia and Jordan in a terrible position."
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AP
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AP
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| May 27, 2005 | - Brigadier General Jay Hood, Guantánamo Bay's commander, said that an investigation at Guantánamo Bay had uncovered five incidents of Koran abuse, but none involved toilets; protesters rallied against Koran abuse in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Malaysia, and in Lebanon, where they chanted “America is the biggest Satan.”
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BBC News
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| February 29, 2004 | -
Israeli forces seized millions of dollars from two Jordanian banks in the West Bank.
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Al Jazeera
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