AlJazeera reports that clashes have erupted in two Jordanian jails. It is reported that there is one death and 9 injuries.
Apparently the man who was part of the assassination of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in 2001 was being transported or taken somewhere and other prisoners refused to let that happen.
AlJazeera claims Salem Bin Suweid, a […]

An important development on the horizon…
Local opposition figures are hoping that a draft law governing the formation of political parties will be passed by parliament next month, ushering in a new era of political liberalisation.
“The new law includes a provision that refers to political parties assuming legislative power and forming future governments if they have […]

nuff said

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The Embassy of India at Jordan, Amman has informed Pharmexcil that due to the public boycott of Danish products in Jordan, following the cartoon controversy, new trade opportunities have arisen for other countries to replace Denmark as a source for several products imported by Jordan.
One major product that requires immediate replacement is insulin, which is […]

On the Abu-Mahjoob website, this latest poll caught my attention. Don’t worry I know polls on a cartoonist’s website are not scientific. Nevertheless the language got me thinking.
What is wrong with this picture?
Yes, this picture to the right!
Where is Al-Queda and their foreign terrorists?
They might as well have thrown in Kenya as the source of […]

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A Jordanian embassy driver held hostage for two months in Iraq was greeted by Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit on Saturday on his return to the Kingdom, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah Khatib, Government Spokesperson Nasser Judeh, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff General Khalid Sarayreh and senior officials were also at the […]

A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his “wife”, after he was caught having sex with the animal.
The goat’s owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders. They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese […]

This week the songs are pretty much all piano-driven tracks. And who better than Ben Folds when it comes to piano-riffs?
Some of the greatest hits I love to hear over and over are “The Luckiest”, “Time” and “We’re Still fighting it”. I really like the lyrics of the latter: “Everybody know, it hurts to grow […]

That bad feeling?
That sad feeling?
That ‘was it all a dream feeling’?
That ‘was it like a sign’ feeling?
That ‘i wish i knew what it meant’ feeling?
That scene stealing
heart reeling, kind of dead feeling?
That ‘wanna make sense of it all’ feeling?
That gut wrenching, heart stopping feeling?
That ‘i can’t remember a thing’ feeling?
That ‘i’ve got to write this […]

Did not see it coming
that yellow rumbling machine
ripping through brick, glass and stone
had to find a new home
in a new town
in an old tent
Did not see it coming
that tall gray wall
ripping through the school yard
life gets a little more hard
but the books were too much to afford either way
not on what father makes anyway
I did […]

It’s just a feeling really. Call it a hunch. Call it empirical guesswork.

World Chechnya Day is intended to commemorate the dignity and resiliance of a people who, against all odds, refused to be erased from existence.
On 23 February 1944, Stalin ordered the deportation of the entire Chechen and Ingush population to Central Asia. More than […]

The following is purely my own opinion, no more and no less. It is not necessarily in defence of the His Majesty so much as it is in defence of the Kingdom of Jordan from those who try to bring us down. It is part commentary and part rant.
A few pieces of news have surfaced […]

yaaaaay!

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I’m usually very impressed by IslamOnline and I still am, but sometimes some of the most absurd articles are posted up there (to say nothing of the numerous English typos that make it look unprofessional at times).
Case in point. Today I read an article about a “campaign” of sorts that was started (as I’m lead […]

A kidnapped Jordanian embassy driver has been released in Baghdad, Jordanian Prime Marouf al-Bakhit said on Tuesday.
The driver, Mahmoud Suleiman Saidat, was abducted Dec. 20 by 15 masked men near his home in Baghdad’s southern Sadiya neighborhood.
Al-Bakhit told the Petra news agency that Saidat “was released after thorough efforts over the past two months and […]