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The Saudi man arrested by the Joint Terrorism Task Force yesterday in Idaho has ties to close associates of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and to four Arab men charged at the same time with channeling funds to Iraq. Sami Omar Al-Hussayen – a University of Idaho doctoral candidate supported by the Saudi government – was a terrorist bagman, according to a federal criminal justice source quoted by a Seattle newspaper. Saudi student Sami Omar al-Hussayen "He's in touch with people who could pick up the phone, call [bin Laden], and he would take the call," the source told the...

Zabul Provincial Governor Del Bar Arman speaks at the ceremony welcoming the Jordanian medical team to the Zabul Provincial Hospital. Arman played a major role in the creation of the hospital. Defense Department courtesy photo Zabul Provincial Hospital Welcomes Jordanians New state-of-the-art medical facility will provide humanitarian assistance to the province. By Sgt. Timothy Dinneen Combined Joint Task Force-76 PAO QALAT, Afghanistan, Feb. 7, 2007 -- A Jordanian medical team of doctors, nurses and medical technicians were welcomed at the Zabul Provincial Hospital Jan. 31 by local citizens, government officials and the commanders of the 82nd Airborne and 10th...

ZARQA, Jordan (Army News Service, April 25, 2006) – More than 300 U.S. Soldiers from U.S.- and German-based units gained greater insight into the Arabic culture at the Peace Operation Training Center in Zarqa, Jordan, March 24 through April 16. The Cultural Awareness Course is part of U.S. Central Command’s Theater Support Cooperation Program, and is taught by Jordanian allies and Soldiers from Third Army. “Third Army has partnered with the Jordanian Armed Forces to teach this training since October 2003, and pushes it as a key training platform and integral piece of the Forces Command training strategy for deploying...

An American with ties to the Triangle is about to face an Iraqi court for allegedly conspiring with terror suspect Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. According to a high-ranking U.S. Military Officer, when Shawqi Omar was captured in his home in Baghdad, he was in possession of numerous weapons -- materials for making Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) -- and harboring Jordanian freedom fighters.

A German court has sentenced four Arab men to prison terms ranging from five to eight years each Wednesday for plotting attacks on Jewish sites. Three of the men are Jordanians. They were convicted of supporting an al-Qaida group linked to Iraqi insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the BBC said.

<p>An Indianapolis family kept vigil Tuesday awaiting news of two brothers they say are wrongly being held in the Philippines for suspected ties to terrorists.</p> <p>"This is like a (bad) dream," said Pamela Stubbs Thornton, a sister of the detained men, Michael Ray Stubbs and Jamil Daud Mujahid.</p>

AMMAN (AFP) - Two Jordanians were charged here with planning to carry out attacks on diplomats in the country, according to their charge sheet. In a separate case, another man was accused of having links with fellow Jordanian Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, considered to be the leader in Iraqof Osama bin Laden 's Al-Qaeda terror network. Student Khaled Abdelrahman Jibran, 20, and shop employee Abdelhamid Ezzat Mahmoud Yassin, 31, were charged by the state security court prosecutor with "conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts." They were also charged with planning "military operations against foreign diplomats as revenge on their countries for...

BRUSSELS, June 8 (Reuters) - Belgian police have arrested 15 people on suspicion of planning terror attacks in coordinated raids that also spanned Italy, France and Spain, officials said on Tuesday. Italy earlier arrested an Egyptian man considered to be a mastermind of the Madrid train bombings in the first Europe-wide raids on Islamic militants linked to the March attack in which 191 people were killed. "We know them to be part of a terrorist group," the director of the federal police bureau of Brussels, Glenn Audenaert, told reporters. He said 200 police were involved in the operation and that...

Jordanians Scared by al-Qaida Terror Plot Wednesday April 28, 2004 12:46 AM By SHAFIKA MATTAR Associated Press Writer AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Serene Husseini fears for the safety of her children. Sana Naji might leave Jordan over terrorism worries. Scared buyers are staying home rather than venturing into Samia Dabbas' clothing shop. Such concerns were evident across Amman on Tuesday after state-run TV showed suspected al-Qaida-linked terrorists confessing to planning large-scale bomb attacks in Jordan's capital. A TV commentator said the attackers hoped to kill 80,000 people and injure 160,000. The terror suspects said they were plotting al-Qaida's first chemical...

A Jordanian court has sentenced eight Islamic militants to death for the murder of a United States diplomat in the capital Amman 18 months ago. Jordanian authorities say the men are linked to the Al Qaeda terror network. Laurence Foley, a diplomat with the US Agency for International Development, was shot dead outside his Amman home in October of 2002. The Jordanian court also sentenced two other men to 15 years in jail in connection with the killing. Jordanian authorities say at least one of the men sentenced to die - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - has connections with Al Qaeda....

German officials arrested on Thursday charged three Jordanians suspected of belonging to a Palestinian extremist group prosecutors said was plotting attacks on Jewish and Israeli interests. Federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe said a fourth man had been charged with providing support to the al-Tawhid group. The four men will be tried in a Düsseldorf court, where the trial of another al-Tawhid member is underway. Together all five men have been accused of planning an attack near a Jewish institution in Berlin. They could face 10 year prison sentences if convicted.

CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug 5 (Reuters) President George W. Bush said the United States would provide 26 million dollars for urgent assistance to Palestinian refugees in the West Bank and Gaza. In a memorandum to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Bush said he determined that up to 26 million dollars be made available from the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for a contribution to a U.N. relief fund for Palestinian refugees. Bush said the aid was needed to meet ''unexpected and urgent refugee needs in the West Bank and Gaza.'' Bush is seeking to prod the Palestinians and Israelis...

In 1967, there was not one Palestinian on this planet. We created the Palestinians by forcing West Bank Jordanians to redefine themselves. Between 1948 and 1967 every single Palestinian was a full-fledged Jordanian citizen. With our backs to the wall in 1967, we attacked when the surrounding armies mobilized with orders to exterminate every single Jew, women and children included. We just wanted to survive. We did not expect to win and certainly did not expect to regain the rest of Biblical Israel. After winning, we were stuck in a bind. On the one hand, once regained we could not...

DEBKAfile Special Military Report June 15, 2003, 1:10 AM (GMT+02:00) US army hits back at Saddam loyalists who lean on clandestine support from Damascus The cat was out of the bag - almost - as a result of Operation Peninsula Strike, the massive US crackdown against a lethal brew of anti-American resistance forces which have been bedeviling US troops north of Baghdad. A substantial quotient of foreign combatants from Arab countries - Saudis, Yemenis, Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians and Palestinians from Syria or Lebanon - was discovered to be mixed in with the Fedayeen Saddam, Baathists and former Republican Guards officers...

AMMAN DISPATCH Speak Easy by Hassan Fattah Only at TNR Online Post date: 04.10.03 The most important thing you learned in Saddam's Iraq was how to say nothing. In a land where serious opinions got you executed and flippant ones got you thrown in jail, communication centered around what was not being said rather than what was. So it was that on Wednesday, when Saddam's fall appeared all but definite, the throngs of Iraqis taking refuge in Jordan's capital carefully began the process of rediscovering their voices. Thousands gathered in downtown Amman's Hashemite Square, cautiously congratulating each other and quietly...

Amman — Eight people charged with possessing and transporting illegal explosives and weapons to the West Bank were referred to the State Security Court last week, but their trial will not commence before September, judicial sources said on Monday. The prosecutor general's charge sheet identified the suspects as Khalid Ibrahim, 28, Riyad Youssef, 30, Osama Zayed, 30, Sinan Abdul Qader, 28, Mohammad Youssef, 41, Imad Ahmad, 38, Ahmad Mustafa, 26, and Badri Abed, 38. Ibrahim, Youssef, Zayed and Ahmad were charged with the illegal possession and transport of explosive materials, while all eight were charged with exporting weapons illegally [to...