Jordan has launched a crackdown on the large Iraqi emigrant community in wake of Al Qaida suicide attacks last week. Officials said more than 120 people have been arrested since the triple suicide strikes in luxury hotels in Amman on Nov. 9. They said most of the detainees were Iraqis -- including suspected supporters of Al Qaida network chief Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi -- who came to Jordan over the last five years. "There are only two logistical places that they [attackers] could have come across -- either the Iraqi or the Syrian borders," Jordan's King Abdullah said. Jordan was said to have 400,000 Iraqis. Many of them left Iraq for Jordan during the Saddam Hussein regime. | And many after the Saddam Hussein regime. Leave us not forget them... |
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