2,000 Jordanians protested in front of the parliament today (God I wish I was there), denouncing terrorism and mainly the act of those 4 IAF (Islamic Action Front) MPs who went to Zarqawi’s funeral to offer their condolences and praise him as a â??martyrâ?. It was obviously not such an organized protest as it was […]

…Aljazeera? Its constant anti-Jordanian sentiment.
In a recent article entitled “Jordan Detains Islamist Deputies” it had the following to say about Zarqawi:
Jordan brands al-Zarqawi as a terrorist and says he is the mastermind behind the triple hotel bombings that killed 60 civilians last November.
First of all, he is a terrorist with or without Jordanian “branding”. Second […]

Need to mellow out. Need to mellow out. Need to mellow out. Need to mellow out. Need to mellow out. Need to mellow out. Need to mellow out. Need to mellow out. Need to mellow out. Need to mellow out.
It’s been a stressful week. Thank God for music. These are the tracks I’ve been listening […]

AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan detained four mainstream Islamist deputies for allegedly voicing sympathy for the slain al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, officials said on Sunday. The four deputies were questioned by the prosecutor general and detained over statements they gave in support of Jordanian militant Zarqawi, killed on Wednesday in a joint […]

By Mohamed Olad Hassan: MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Islamic militiamen in control of Somalia’s capital fired guns in the air and cut electricity to makeshift cinemas to prevent people from watching the World Cup, witnesses said.
“As soon as the Islamists took over the security of our city, we thought we would get freedom,” said Adam […]

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by way of: Heaneyland!

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To Martin Patience who wrote this article on the BBC with the most absurd title I’ve read in a long time.
Interviewing one Sheik who calls Zarqawi a “hero”, a Salafi sheik no less, and then placing “City of martyrs salutes Zarqawi” as the title of the article is such an absurd and misleading statement. Unless […]

…and anyone else this may concern
Zarqawi was a terrorist, simple as that. I donâ??t know what else I can say. Iâ??m thinking of making diagrams and flash cards to spell it out for the people who just donâ??t get it. If you are mourning him or calling him a martyr then you have lost your […]

DETROIT - A 16-year-old girl who flew to the Middle East to see a man she met on MySpace.com was detained in Jordan and was headed home Friday, an FBI spokesman said. U.S. officials persuaded Katherine Lester to take the return flight from Amman, FBI Special Agent Robert Beeckman said from the agencyâ??s Detroit office.

Lester […]

(…as if they really needed a reason)
apologies in advance if the following sounds a bit cruel…
I’ve already expressed my opinion on my catching World Cup fever, or lack there of and meanwhile, back home, it seems everyone on Jordan Planet is a football fanatic. The cruel irony here is that most of these […]

Human history can be charted on a timeline of exploration and discovery. We came out of the cave and saw fire and we crafted ships to sail across oceans and build vast civilizations to span the hemispheres. We orbited the Earth and landed on the moon. We pioneered technologies with unlimited uses, split the atom […]

I thought some of the reactions from the Jordanian blogosphere (specifically Jordan Planet) were quite interesting. I think all bloggers shared a certain joy to the news but all in their own way. Some put forth some demanding questions left more or less answerless. Remember this is a guy who not only came from Jordan […]

I was looking through a list of blogging terminology and discovered there were some interesting new words to add to my vocabulary. Not exactly something you’d expect to see on your SATs but nevertheless.
The following are the ones I found most interesting…

Blogging Habits:

Blogstipation - writerâ??s block for bloggers. Cant think of what to blog […]

I have to admit it’s a bittersweet moment to finally see this guy dead. I know everyone in Jordan should be cheering but I’m saying to myself so what? And I think in the days to come a lot of people will say the same thing.
As a terrorist who attacked our country and caused […]

Jordanian officers participate in a graduation ceremony of the 19th Military and Police Sciences Classes of Mu’ta University, in the Jordanian city of Karak June 7, 2006.

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