And now for yet one more SHAMELESS PLUG
Group Blasts Jordan for Lawmaker Arrests
Asharq al-Awsat / AP ^ | 6/18/06
Posted on 06/18/2006 7:57:30 AM CDT by Valin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1651398/posts
AMMAN, Jordan, AP -Human Rights Watch criticized Jordan's arrest of four lawmakers who visited the family of slain terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, calling it a violation of freedom of expression. "Expressing condolences to the family of a dead man, however murderous he might be, is not a crime," Sarah Leah Whitson, director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division, said in a statement Saturday.
The lawmakers, members of Jordan's largest opposition group, visited al-Zarqawi's family home in Zarqa, 17 miles northeast of Amman, on June 9, two days after al-Qaida in Iraq leader was killed in a U.S. airstrike north of Baghdad.
One of the legislators, Mohammed Abu Fares, described al-Zarqawi as a "martyr." Abu Fares and three others — Jaafar al-Hourani, Ali Abu Sukkar and Ibrahim al-Mashwakhi — were arrested two days later and charged with "instigating sectarian strike" and "fueling national discord." They remain jailed, serving 15-day detention orders.......
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once, a store owner's son, of one of the two Middle Eastern owned stores in my neighborhood, told me they were from Jordan, while yesterday, the father approached me at the bus stop telling me he was from Jerusalem, that Jordan was an ally of the United States????now you tell me, would your common sense tell you that this owner is against the US, I have had some unscrupulous dealings with them lately , about taxing for things that aren't to be taxed, which I called him on, and so now, he asked me where I lived????hm, weird.....this whole Islam thing is so complex , but I found alot of historical answers in "The Sword of the Prophet"....