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Even if the Jordanian-NATO ties might be something new for some bloggers, stories of Jordanian troops in Afghanistan were on everyone's lips (even official media) for years! The Jordanian blogosphere inexplicably reported this story some days ago, and we were enchanted by titles like "Blogger Exposes a State Secret" as well as links which flourished everywhere, from girls-only forums to the official Muslim Brotherhood website, all of them claim to expose a terrible secret, a secret that Jordanian officials are trying hard to defend. The supposed secret is that there are Jordanian troops in Afghanistan (wow!), it was found written in an unclassified NATO document uploaded by an anonymous user on Wikileaks. By reading the related blog post, it seems that it was very difficult and hard to find the document (probably Google was not used) and publishing this kind of information will get the blogger "in trouble". Reality is different. The truth is that the secret is not so "secret". Jordanian-NATO cooperation was always considered a glory for the government, joint US-Jordan military exercises make the headlines of local newspapers and Arab TVs reported about the presence of Jordanian special forces back in 2001! Imagine that the state-run news agency Petra, revealed the "hidden state secret" and provided a nice photo of Jordanian soldiers leaving to Afghanistan...  Now it is my turn and I want to expose some state secrets: There were important relations between big Jordanian officials and Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, there is a cooperation between the Jordanian intelligence and CIA and, this is brand new, we have American nuclear waste in Jordan!
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Do you think any of this would have happened if Jordanians had any say in their own affairs? of course not. that's why the US never lifted a finger when the Jordanian elections were being rigged. All the while, over a million Iraqis were killed as a result of a US invasion that supposedly took place to bring democracy to Iraqis. The American are the most fucked up hypocrites on the face of the planet if not in the history of civilization.
Posted by
Anonymous |
Apr 15, 2009, 11:37:00 PM
Well, probably you are right about the American nuclear waste thing, but not for Jordan-Saddam bilateral relations :)
Again, the US administration is not "hypocrite", it just has its own strategies and interests... having Iraqi oil is good for them, but having full-democratic elections in Jordan is, for sure, not one of the highest American priorities.
Posted by
Issa |
Apr 17, 2009, 9:49:00 PM
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