About 70% of the population is Palestinians. Jordan always was and still is a power keg. I am afraid the Hashemite's days are numbered there. Up until now Israel has stolen the show, but once Palestinians get West Bank, look for trouble to start there too.
Finally, Hussein had had enough. In September 1970 -- the month Palestinian radicals would come to call Black September -- the 34-year-old monarch ordered his army to drive the PLO out of the country. Syrian troops came to the aid of the Palestinians, while Israeli soldiers massed across the border.
When the fighting finally ended, the Palestinian radicals had lost. And although Hussein remained popular at home, the Arab world largely isolated him throughout most of the 1970s.
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Civil War looming in Sri Lanka? (And maybe Jordan) :-(
>> At least 50 rebels were killed and 17 Sri Lankan sailors missing after a sea battle Thursday instigated by the Tamil Tigers left the country on the brink of civil war. Tamil Tigers sank a navy patrol boat off the northern coast as it escorted a troop transport carrying 710 soldiers. In retaliation, the navy downed five rebel vessels and the air force launched airstrikes on guerrilla-held territory.
The escalation in violence could mark a return to civil war, as a 2002 cease-fire that stopped almost two decades of fighting appears increasingly unlikely to last. "This is a very serious attack (by the Tigers), a blatant violation of the cease-fire agreement," government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told The Associated Press. <<
And meanwhile, Jordan Broadcasts Hamas Confessions.
>> State television broadcast on Thursday confessions by three members of the militant Palestinian group Hamas detained in what Jordan said was a plot to target its officials. Hamas denied the charges and accused Jordan of trying to undermine the Palestinian government, which it now leads.
The three suspects said in their confessions that they were Hamas agents who monitored Jordanian intelligence officers and foreign tourists, apparently for a possible attack. Two said they acquired arms and ammunition for Hamas. The television showed footage of weapons, including dozens of hand grenades and Iranian-made Katyusha rockets, that were seized when Jordanian police arrested 20 Hamas activists in raids that began April 18. Some of the weapons were wrapped in plastic and had allegedly been hidden in an olive grove in northern Jordan. <<
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If it wasn't for the radical elements within and the Arab league pressure, Jordan would hav been the first country to make peace with Israel and perhaps today things might have been different.
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Said it was the worst 6 months of his life, and nearly cost him his life twice. It actually caused him to quit the ICRC, but he eventually went back and became Chef de Mission in Moscow just in time for the Chechen rebels to murder the entire Red Cross contingent taking care of the wounded of both sides in Grozny. First time in history that the Red Cross was deliberately targetted, though that quickly changed with the War in Iraq.
The Tamils don't even belong in Sri Lanka which is a different ethnic group. Tamils are from South India, and the whole thing started to try to force India to give them an independent state of Tamil Nadhu there. This might sort of make sense if Sri Lanka were part of India, but its an independent country. Nothing they say will help the situation in India. Typically of all terrorism, it makes no sense. Its nuts.
Rob
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