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51 articles tagged "Jordan"
DEBKAfile
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September 5, 2009, 10:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
While the Obama administration is preparing to stage a US-Israeli-Palestinian summit at the UN General Assembly in New York next month, Jordan's king Abdullah, who has always claimed to be an ardent champion of the Palestinians, is quietly acting to cut down their numbers and influence in his kingdom.
Just ... 
DEBKAfile
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May 23, 2009, 2:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Jordan's King Abdullah II is hyperactive on the Palestinian issue to draw attention from the storm in Amman over his controversial decision to appoint his 9-year old son Hussein crown prince. This would mean sacking the incumbent, the king's 27-year old half-brother Prince Hazme, son of the late King Hussein ...
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May 8, 2008, 8:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Middle East sources disclose a signal victory in Hamas' expansionist drive Friday, May 2, when its members scooped up 28 of the 50 seats of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood Shura Council in a secret ballot.
Hamam Said, 64, a Palestinian Hamas operative from the West Bank town of ...
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May 19, 2007, 8:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, May 13, part of the royal entourage was already aboard two of the three royal helicopters ready for takeoff for Ramallah. There, a meeting had been scheduled between the king and Mahmoud Abbas on Amman's plan to restore Jordan's influence on the West Bank as the centerpiece of a ...
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May 18, 2007, 9:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to our Middle East sources, Amman proposed the new state framework to be established before the rise of an independent Palestinian state.
Amman is acting out of concern for the shaky Palestinian Authority, but debkafile notes that the framework could draw Israeli into backdoor recognition of Hamas's ... 
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March 27, 2007, 3:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli officials and army chiefs were taken aback by an intelligence report summing up two years of research, which exposed Jordan's King Abdullah, Israel's partner in peace and the war on terror, as being secretly in league with the Damascus-based radical Khaled Meshaal.
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March 3, 2007, 2:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Osama bin Laden's cells were planned for Jordan's main cities, structured on the same lines as the Iraq and Gaza networks.
debkafile's counter-terror sources report that Jordanian intelligence stumbled on the conspiracy by chance when a group of former contacts of Abu Musab al Zarqawi attempting to cross the ... 
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April 16, 2005, 11:33 AM (GMT+02:00)
King Abdullah II is deeply preoccupied in restructuring governance in his realm according to a self-designed pattern of democracy. This month, he appointed a new government shorn of policy-making authority in the fields of foreign affairs, defense and home security, prerogatives that will pass to the royal court. Furthermore, he ...
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October 21, 2004, 11:20 AM (GMT+02:00)
Shortly before the October 7 Sinai bombings at Taba and Nueiba, inhabitants of the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat noticed some strange goings-on across the bay in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba. The answer to the riddle was not long coming. One morning, they awoke to the sight ...
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April 2, 2004, 6:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
The building in the picture, the five-star Le Meridien Hotel, in the Shmeisani district of Amman, walking distance from the Hussein sports center and the Palace of Culture, was projected for reduction to charred rubble Friday, April 2 by a joint Hizballah-al Qaeda bomb team. This is revealed by
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April 21, 2002, 2:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Jordan's King Abdullah II flew to Cairo Sunday, April 21 to confer with President Hosny Mubarak of Egypt on the current Middle East crisis and the rising ferment in their countries. The two leaders are in close coordination on the problem of Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian Authority.
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