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...trip to the Yemeni capital of Sana'a isn't for the timid. Many Western governments warn their nationals of a threat of terrorism; women are expected to wear loose clothes covering their legs, arms and head; streets are chaotic; and there are few starred hotels and restaurants. But when you stand on the bridge at the corner of Az-Zubayri and As-Sailah Streets and drink in the walled city's gold-tinged beauty, some hardship may seem worthwhile. Sana'a, one of the world's oldest conurbations, lies in the embrace of the Jabal Nugum and Aiban mountain...
...poll data yet to back up Shukri's assessment, but anecdotal evidence is adding up: Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets over the weekend, waving Jordanian banners, rather than burning American and Israeli flags, and voicing outrage against Zarqawi's terrorism. Among the first to condemn the hotel attacks was the Muslim Brotherhood, Jordan's most influential fundamentalist group. "What jihad is this," asked Jordanian columnist Taher Adwan, "when a young Arab man enters a hall where a wedding of Jordanian citizens is taking place to inflict the heaviest losses in life?" A similar local backlash against terrorism occurred...
...become a poster girl for suicide terror. But she is inspiring revulsion, not veneration, in Jordan and beyond. The 35-year-old Iraqi woman from the restive Sunni city of Ramadi had traveled to Jordan intending to be the fourth bomber in last week's suicide attacks on hotels in Amman. Instead, Jordanian sources tell TIME, she was arrested Sunday morning in the historic city of Salt, after fleeing the Radisson SAS hotel and making her escape by taxi. The sources say that she headed for the western Jordanian city, known for its radical Islamists, in search of shelter with...
...chilling performance aired on Jordan's Channel 1 only hours later, Rishawi twirled her body around as she modeled the hand-made explosives belt that she tried but failed to detonate in the hotel's ballroom on November 9. As if in a trance, she then coldly recounted the plan. "There was a wedding at the hotel, with children, women and men inside," she said, explaining the choice of target. Her husband then took one corner of the ballroom, she took another. "I tried to explode [my belt] but it wouldn't," she said. But Rishawi's husband managed...
...This time, however, Jordanians weren't buying the propaganda. The hotel attacks, says Ali Shukri, a longtime advisor to the late King Hussein, were "not a rude awakening, but a bloody awakening" for the many Jordanians who have shown sympathy for Zarqawi's gruesome acts in the past. "It's come back to haunt them," says Shukri. "Most people will swing 180 degrees...