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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (94)	7/7/2002 12:31:01 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3959

Al-Qaeda 'opens new front in Jordan' news.bbc.co.uk Diplomatic sources say a pattern is emerging of Arab fighters in Afghanistan escaping the American attack on al-Qaeda's hideouts to take their struggle back to the Arab world. On Thursday, Israel said it had detained a truck driver from the West Bank town of Nablus, whom it accused of smuggling dozens of weapons from Jordan to Israel under boxes of vegetables. Jordanian officials have shunned public announcements, apparently for fear of exacerbating emotions in a country where half the population is Palestinian. Many Palestinians feel disgruntled at what they see as the kingdom's half-hearted response to the intifada - or Palestinian uprising against the Israelis.