REUTERS: Jordan’s Islamic Action Front Party leader Hamzi Mansour gestures during a news conference in Amman August 2, 2010. The Islamic Action Front, the political wing of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s largest political grouping, said on Monday that it has decided to boycott the November election in protest against a new voting system which [...]

As most have heard by now, the city of Aqaba experienced a bit of terrorism earlier this morning, at 7:45am, when a Grad-type Katyushas landed in a hotel area, killing one (thus far) and injuring several others. My good friend and 7iber comrade, Mohammad Al-Qaq happened to be staying at the InterContinental hotel nearby and [...]

Like a leaky boat, information on the new cabinet changes to Samir Rifai’s government have spilling out, specifically on electronic news sites, which seem to be beating mainstream media to the punch once again. According to Ammon, the changes include seven ministerial replacements as follows: Minister of Education & Deputy Prime Minister: Dr. Khaled Karaki [...]

Criminal Prosecutor Ali Abu Zeid on Saturday charged a 43-year-old farmer with premeditated murder in connection with the shooting death of his female relative over the weekend, official sources said. The suspect, who was not identified by officials, reportedly shot his 16-year-old niece with a machinegun at her home in Deir Alla on Friday, a [...]

As is typical of the Islamist Action Front, wherever there are elections, there are calls for boycotts from the group. And this year is obviously no different. In 2007, the IAF cautiously participated in the municipal elections held during the summer, and were so badly burned at the polls due to “irregularities” that they keenly [...]

By now, it’s no secret to most that HM King Abdullah has publicly accused Israel for its “underhanded” attempts to halt Jordan’s nuclear energy program by pressuring the French and the South Koreans not to sell the country reactors. The King’s message to the Israelis, as voiced in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, [...]

“The attack stunned the world because of its blatant and absurd disregard for anything resembling international law, human rights, and diplomatic norms. Its glaring outrageousness stunned, but didn’t surprise, me. It cannot be viewed in isolation. It is another upshot of a dogma long fermenting on Israel’s political landscape. It is a doctrine that lives [...]

Yesterday, it seems people were scrambling to find where the 120 Flotilla activists were arriving. Suffice to say they had a heroes welcome in Amman after Israel’s attacks on their ships and the subsequent deportation of the activists, all of whom are from from Arab and Muslim countries. They’re currently being treated in Amman. Other [...]