Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Jordan Juke

You have to look quick or they will be by you and gone.

"Stone-throwing youths in a poor southern town exploded in anger at rough handling by police during a visit by King Abdullah II yesterday, a symptom of simmering popular frustrations in Jordan even as the monarch moves toward a more democratic system.  

You faked out by that?

The spurt of violence, rare in Jordan while other Arab states were rocked by turmoil in recent months, pointed up Jordanians’ resentment of heavy-handed control by the Hashemite kingdom’s security forces....  

Ah, people are the same everywhere.

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Jordan (like Bahrain) a U.S. ally and thus receives very little coverage for its repression (or anything else).