Political Standoff in Jordan

Amman : Jordan | Oct 11, 2012 at 6:24 AM PDT

Source: Canadian Free Press

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For the time being, that is a piece of good news for the Jordanian opposition, maybe the only one. Under the banner of Save the Nation, the organizers, mostly the Islamic Action Front, which encompasses the Muslim Brotherhood and some seventy different opposition groups, cannot be satisfied with 10,000... FULL ARTICLE AT Canadian Free Press

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