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Jordanian prosecutor charges Yemeni in hoax at opposition offices involving fake suicide belt AMMAN, Jordan — A Jordanian prosecutor says a Yemeni man has been charged with disturbing public safety by threatening to blow himself up at an Islamist party office with what turned out to be a fake explosive belt. If convicted, 61-year-old Abdul Wahab Abdul Ghani faces three years in prison. Abdul Ghani on Monday walked into the headquarters of Jordan’s largest opposition group, the Islamic Action Front, displaying the belt and saying he would set it off. He was quickly arrested and authorities later said the attack...

A 'third force' awaits US in Iraq By Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - As the United States squares off against Iraq and the regime of Saddam Hussein there is not much doubt as to whom the winners and losers will be. But if one looks a little closer at Iraq and beyond, there is evidence of a third element, an Islamic movement spearheaded by the Muslim Brotherhood, that could also be a winner. After Iraq's bloody nose in the 1991 Gulf War, the dynamics of the country's religious society underwent a change, out of which emerged growing support for the...

Jordanian clerics have issued a fatwa describing as "apostates" journalists of a weekly magazine that published an article deemed insulting to Prophet Mohammad, a statement said Wednesday. The Islamic Action Front (IAF) said a group of its scholars found journalists of the independent Al Hilal weekly "apostates," warning they will "burn in hell." The statement said Islamic law "deems those who undermine or insult the prophet, or slander him or his message, as apostates who will burn in hell for eternity." The fatwa came less than a week after the authorities detained three Al Hilal journalists and shut the newspaper...

AMMAN, Nov 3 (AFP) - Islamist ulemas issued a fatwa at the end of a meeting in Jordan Sunday banning Muslim leaders from cooperating with the United States in a war on Iraq, and branding Washington and its ally Israel as "enemies of God". "Governed and governing Muslims are prohibited from helping the Americans who are preparing to attack and occupy Iraq," said the fatwa, a religious edict, a copy of which was obtained by AFP. Muslims should not help the US war effort "by giving them access to their airports, their ports and their national airspace, or by...