Thursday, December 30, 2010
Freedom for Jordan: النائب الزعبي يمطر حكومة الرفاعي بالاسئلة عن شبهات...
Freedom for Jordan: النائب الزعبي يمطر حكومة الرفاعي بالاسئلة عن شبهات...: "اجبد - امطر النائب فواز الزعبي الحكومة باسئلة ساخنة عن العديد من المشروعات التي ثار حول بعضها جدلا بوجود شبهة فساد. فقد طالب الزعبي رئيس الو..."
Freedom for Jordan: النائب الزعبي يمطر حكومة الرفاعي بالاسئلة عن شبهات...
Freedom for Jordan: النائب الزعبي يمطر حكومة الرفاعي بالاسئلة عن شبهات...: "اجبد - امطر النائب فواز الزعبي الحكومة باسئلة ساخنة عن العديد من المشروعات التي ثار حول بعضها جدلا بوجود شبهة فساد. فقد طالب الزعبي رئيس الو..."
النائب الزعبي يمطر حكومة الرفاعي بالاسئلة عن شبهات فساد !
اجبد - امطر النائب فواز الزعبي الحكومة باسئلة ساخنة عن العديد من المشروعات التي ثار حول بعضها جدلا بوجود شبهة فساد. فقد طالب الزعبي رئيس الوزراء سمير الرفاعي بتزويده بنتائج لجان التحقيق التي تمت حول اعمال برنامج سابق ممول من المنحة الامريكية usaid.
كما طالب بتزويده بقيمة الاعفاءات الضريبية والجمركية التي قدمت لمشروع العبدلي وفيما اذا قدمت الحكومة اية كفالات مالية للمشروع. وسأل الزعبي هل صحيح ان وزارة المياه والري بصدد تلزيم المرحلة الثانية من محطة الخربة السمراء للشركة الفرنسية بقيمة 190 مليون دولار امريكي .. وهل صحيح ان كلفة المتر المكعب ستصبح 34 قرش بدلا حاليا على الرغم من المنحة المقدمة؟ والى اين وصلت مفاوضات الحكومة مع شركة ارث جلوبل الامريكية بخصوص تلزيمها نقل المياه من خلال حفر 75 بئرا في المنطقة الشرقية؟.
ومن اسئلة الزعبي الموجهة الى الحكومة استفساره عن قيمة المبالغ التي دفعتها الحكومة لعاية الان ضمن اتفاقيتها مع شركة اريفا الفرنسية لبناء المفاعل النووي الاردني وكذلك قيمة المبالغ التي تكبدتها الحكومة نتيجة نقل الموقع من العقبة الى قرية المجدل في المفرق. واشتملت الاسئلة عن المفاعل النووي فيما اذا قامت هيئة الطاقة الذرية بدراسة اثر المفاعل على اهل منطقة المفرق وما هو اثر تزويد المفاعل بالمياه على مياه الري في وادي الاردن، ومن هي الشركة المحلية الوكيلة لشركة اريفا؟. وفي السياق وجه الزعبي اسئلته الى وزير التخطيط عن دراسات البرنامج التنفيذي والجهة الاستشارية التي قامت باعداده ولماذا يتم التنسيق مع وزارة المالية بخصوص المبالغ المطلوبة وما هي خطة الوزارة لتأمين المبالغ المطلوبة لتنفيذ البرنامج، وما هي الاسس التي اتبعتها في وضع الاولويات.
كما طالب بتزويده بقيمة الاعفاءات الضريبية والجمركية التي قدمت لمشروع العبدلي وفيما اذا قدمت الحكومة اية كفالات مالية للمشروع. وسأل الزعبي هل صحيح ان وزارة المياه والري بصدد تلزيم المرحلة الثانية من محطة الخربة السمراء للشركة الفرنسية بقيمة 190 مليون دولار امريكي .. وهل صحيح ان كلفة المتر المكعب ستصبح 34 قرش بدلا حاليا على الرغم من المنحة المقدمة؟ والى اين وصلت مفاوضات الحكومة مع شركة ارث جلوبل الامريكية بخصوص تلزيمها نقل المياه من خلال حفر 75 بئرا في المنطقة الشرقية؟.
ومن اسئلة الزعبي الموجهة الى الحكومة استفساره عن قيمة المبالغ التي دفعتها الحكومة لعاية الان ضمن اتفاقيتها مع شركة اريفا الفرنسية لبناء المفاعل النووي الاردني وكذلك قيمة المبالغ التي تكبدتها الحكومة نتيجة نقل الموقع من العقبة الى قرية المجدل في المفرق. واشتملت الاسئلة عن المفاعل النووي فيما اذا قامت هيئة الطاقة الذرية بدراسة اثر المفاعل على اهل منطقة المفرق وما هو اثر تزويد المفاعل بالمياه على مياه الري في وادي الاردن، ومن هي الشركة المحلية الوكيلة لشركة اريفا؟. وفي السياق وجه الزعبي اسئلته الى وزير التخطيط عن دراسات البرنامج التنفيذي والجهة الاستشارية التي قامت باعداده ولماذا يتم التنسيق مع وزارة المالية بخصوص المبالغ المطلوبة وما هي خطة الوزارة لتأمين المبالغ المطلوبة لتنفيذ البرنامج، وما هي الاسس التي اتبعتها في وضع الاولويات.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
بوادر حملة حكومية برلمانية تستهدف الحريات الصحافية في الأردن بعد تعليقات ساخرة إنتقدت التصويت الكبير للثقة بالحكومة:
عمان- 'القدس العربي':هاجم أعضاء في البرلمان الأردني في جلستهم أمس بقسوة الصحافة المحلية بعد عاصفة انتقاد تعرض لها المجلس النيابي إثر تصويته الكبير للثقة بحكومة الرئيس سمير الرفاعي وبمعدل 111 صوتا من أصل 119.
وطالب النائب فواز الزعبي الحكومة بالتدخل مع الإعلام المحلي لكبح جماح الإساءة لمجلس الأمة وممثلي الشعب، منتقدا بشدة الصحافة المحلية لإنها تحدثت عن خلاف حصل تحت القبة بينه وبين النائب يحيى السعود الأسبوع الماضي مشيرا الى ان ما يقع تحت القبة هو شأن داخلي لمجلس النواب.
وتخلل جلسة أمس الإثنين هجوم متكرر على وسائل الإعلام المحلية بسبب موقفها من الثقة الكبيرة جدا التي حصلت عليها الحكومة حيث تحدث النائب رعد بن طريف عن تشويه مقصود لصورة مجلس النواب عبر الصحافة.
واستغلت الحكومة بدورها العتب والغضب البرلماني لإيصال رسالتها بالسياق حيث تقدم الرفاعي بمداخلة أمام النواب قال فيها ان الحكومة رصدت محاولات إساءة للنواب، موضحا ان حكومته حصلت على ثقة نواب الأمة بعدما تقدمت ببرنامجها الشامل، ملمحا لاتخاذ إجراءات تشريعية وإدارية تمنع المساس بكرامة الإفراد واغتيال السمعة وتجاوزات الصحافة على حقوق الناس والمؤسسات.
وعبر مراقبون عن قلقهم من نقطة التقاطع بين النواب والحكومة فيما يتعلق بالتعبيرات الصحافية وحريات وسقف النشر في البلاد خصوصا في المواقع الإلكترونية التي نشرت مساحة نقد وسخرية لاذعة من مجريات الثقة البرلمانية في الحكومة والتي تعتقد بان الحكومة تتربص عمليا بسقفها في مطلق الأحوال.
وكان تصويت النواب بثقة غير مسبوقة لصالح الحكومة تتجاوز 93 ' وهو ما لم يحصل سابقا قد أثار موجة عريضة من النقد للطرفين خصوصا وتضمنت الموجة نشر رسوم كاريكاتورية ساخرة من التصويت النيابي الذي أعقب خطابات ساخنة ونارية جدا ضد الحكومة.
وكان ثمانية أعضاء فقط من مجلس النواب قد حجبوا الثقة عن الحكومة وكانت المفاجأة الأبرز تصويت أربع نساء نجحن على نظام الكوتا لحجب الثقة في واحدة من أبرز مفاجآت مناقشات الثقة بالوزارة.
ولفتت النائبة تمام الرياطي الأنظار عندما صرحت معترضة على التصويت الرجالي بانها نسيت وضع الشنب. فيما أثار التصويت الكثيف حملة استياء شعبية عارمة عبرت عنها وسائل الإعلام خصوصا.
Freedom for Jordan
وطالب النائب فواز الزعبي الحكومة بالتدخل مع الإعلام المحلي لكبح جماح الإساءة لمجلس الأمة وممثلي الشعب، منتقدا بشدة الصحافة المحلية لإنها تحدثت عن خلاف حصل تحت القبة بينه وبين النائب يحيى السعود الأسبوع الماضي مشيرا الى ان ما يقع تحت القبة هو شأن داخلي لمجلس النواب.
وتخلل جلسة أمس الإثنين هجوم متكرر على وسائل الإعلام المحلية بسبب موقفها من الثقة الكبيرة جدا التي حصلت عليها الحكومة حيث تحدث النائب رعد بن طريف عن تشويه مقصود لصورة مجلس النواب عبر الصحافة.
واستغلت الحكومة بدورها العتب والغضب البرلماني لإيصال رسالتها بالسياق حيث تقدم الرفاعي بمداخلة أمام النواب قال فيها ان الحكومة رصدت محاولات إساءة للنواب، موضحا ان حكومته حصلت على ثقة نواب الأمة بعدما تقدمت ببرنامجها الشامل، ملمحا لاتخاذ إجراءات تشريعية وإدارية تمنع المساس بكرامة الإفراد واغتيال السمعة وتجاوزات الصحافة على حقوق الناس والمؤسسات.
وعبر مراقبون عن قلقهم من نقطة التقاطع بين النواب والحكومة فيما يتعلق بالتعبيرات الصحافية وحريات وسقف النشر في البلاد خصوصا في المواقع الإلكترونية التي نشرت مساحة نقد وسخرية لاذعة من مجريات الثقة البرلمانية في الحكومة والتي تعتقد بان الحكومة تتربص عمليا بسقفها في مطلق الأحوال.
وكان تصويت النواب بثقة غير مسبوقة لصالح الحكومة تتجاوز 93 ' وهو ما لم يحصل سابقا قد أثار موجة عريضة من النقد للطرفين خصوصا وتضمنت الموجة نشر رسوم كاريكاتورية ساخرة من التصويت النيابي الذي أعقب خطابات ساخنة ونارية جدا ضد الحكومة.
وكان ثمانية أعضاء فقط من مجلس النواب قد حجبوا الثقة عن الحكومة وكانت المفاجأة الأبرز تصويت أربع نساء نجحن على نظام الكوتا لحجب الثقة في واحدة من أبرز مفاجآت مناقشات الثقة بالوزارة.
ولفتت النائبة تمام الرياطي الأنظار عندما صرحت معترضة على التصويت الرجالي بانها نسيت وضع الشنب. فيما أثار التصويت الكثيف حملة استياء شعبية عارمة عبرت عنها وسائل الإعلام خصوصا.
Freedom for Jordan
Location:Kingdom of Jordan
Friday, December 24, 2010
Cyberwar forum • View topic - Jordan Islamist fatwa bars Muslim support of Afghan war
MONDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2010 21:55
Middle East Online
Government rejects fatwa barring Muslims from assisting US, NATO troops in Afghanistan as offensive.
AMMAN - The Jordanian government said on Monday that a fatwa issued by the Islamist opposition barring Muslims from assisting US and NATO troops in Afghanistan was "offensive."
"The government rejects the fatwa because it is offensive to the significant armed forces' role in providing medical and humanitarian aid to the Afghan people and helping preserve their country's security and stability," Deputy Prime Minister Ayman Safadi said in a statement.
"Jordan is proud of its armed forces and security apparatuses as well as their roles in Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip or any other place in the Arab and Muslim worlds."
The powerful Islamic Action Front (IAF) said in the non-binding religious edict on Sunday that "sending troops to help NATO and America in Afghanistan or any other country is forbidden."
"Muslims are not allowed to support non-Muslims in their aggression against other Muslims. Afghanistan is a Muslim country," added the IAF, the political arm of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood.
But Safadi, who is also government spokesman, insisted that Jordan "will continue to assist all brothers, including the Afghan people, in facing challenges.
"Nobody is allowed to offend Jordan by making irresponsible remarks and positions that seek to tarnish its role and the role of its armed forces," he said.
"Jordan will do whatever it takes to protect itself and protect Jordanians and their safety and security."
Jordan, a key US ally, has acknowledged it had a counter-terrorism role in Afghanistan after the death in a January suicide bombing of a senior intelligence officer who was also a member of the royal family.
His death, along with seven US Central Intelligence Agency personnel, spotlighted for the first time Jordan's role in the international coalition in the war-hit country.
Freedom for Jordan
Middle East Online
Government rejects fatwa barring Muslims from assisting US, NATO troops in Afghanistan as offensive.
AMMAN - The Jordanian government said on Monday that a fatwa issued by the Islamist opposition barring Muslims from assisting US and NATO troops in Afghanistan was "offensive."
"The government rejects the fatwa because it is offensive to the significant armed forces' role in providing medical and humanitarian aid to the Afghan people and helping preserve their country's security and stability," Deputy Prime Minister Ayman Safadi said in a statement.
"Jordan is proud of its armed forces and security apparatuses as well as their roles in Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip or any other place in the Arab and Muslim worlds."
The powerful Islamic Action Front (IAF) said in the non-binding religious edict on Sunday that "sending troops to help NATO and America in Afghanistan or any other country is forbidden."
"Muslims are not allowed to support non-Muslims in their aggression against other Muslims. Afghanistan is a Muslim country," added the IAF, the political arm of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood.
But Safadi, who is also government spokesman, insisted that Jordan "will continue to assist all brothers, including the Afghan people, in facing challenges.
"Nobody is allowed to offend Jordan by making irresponsible remarks and positions that seek to tarnish its role and the role of its armed forces," he said.
"Jordan will do whatever it takes to protect itself and protect Jordanians and their safety and security."
Jordan, a key US ally, has acknowledged it had a counter-terrorism role in Afghanistan after the death in a January suicide bombing of a senior intelligence officer who was also a member of the royal family.
His death, along with seven US Central Intelligence Agency personnel, spotlighted for the first time Jordan's role in the international coalition in the war-hit country.
Freedom for Jordan
Location:Kingdom of Jordan
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Jordan among "unstable" countries, according to The Mossad
Wikileaks
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 05 TEL AVIV 002652
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SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/24/2017
TAGS: PREL PTER MARR MASS KNNP UNSC PK IR IZ ZP
JO, EG, RS, CH, LE, SY, IS
SUBJECT: U/S BURNS' AUGUST 17 MEETING WITH ISRAELI MOSSAD
CHIEF MEIR DAGAN
Classified By: Ambassador Richard H. Jones. Reasons: 1.4 (b)(d).
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SUMMARY
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¶1. (S) In an August 17 meeting, Israeli Mossad Chief Meir
Dagan thanked Under Secretary Burns for America's support of
Israel as evidenced by the previous day's signing of an MOU
that provides Israel with USD 30 billion in security
assistance from 2008-2018. Dagan provided his assessment of
the Middle East region, Pakistan and Turkey, stressing
Israel's (a) concern for President Musharraf's well-being,
(b) view that Iran can be forced to change its behavior, and
(c) sense that Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are
unstable with unclear futures ahead of them. Dagan probed
for more detail about XXXXXXXXXXXX U.S. military assistance
to the Gulf states, and -- while signaling agreement with the
U.S. approach to the Gulf states vis-a-vis Iran -- cautioned that
they may not be able to absorb significant military assistance.
Dagan reviewed Israel's five-pillar strategy concerning
Iran's nuclear program, stressed that Iran is economicall
vulnerable, and pressed for more activity with Iran's
minority groups aimed at regime change. Dagan urged
caution in providing assistance to the Siniora government in
Lebanon, noting Syrian and Iranian efforts to topple the GOL.
¶2. (S) Under Secretary Burns cited the MOU as tangible
evidence of the USG's commitment to Israel, and stressed that
the U.S. would support all of its friends -- Arabs included
-- in the Middle East, and will remain engaged in the region
for the long term. He described U.S. efforts to support the
Musharraf and Karzai governments as they face opposition from
Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and explained that the Gulf
Security Dialogue is meant to bolster Gulf states facing
threats from Iran. The Under Secretary reviewed U.S. efforts
to isolate Iran and increase pressure on it, stressing that
the U.S. is currently focused on the diplomatic track. He
shared USG thinking about the Siniora government in Lebanon,
and urged that the U.S. and Israel continue to consult on
Lebanon. END SUMMARY.
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THE SECURITY ASSISTANCE MOU AND ISRAEL'S QME
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¶3. (S) Dagan observed that the signing of the MOU on
security assistance could not have come at a better time, and
stressed that Israel appreciated America's support. The
Under Secretary agreed about the timing, noting that the
U.S., Israel and like-minded countries were facing multiple
threats around the world, and that the Middle East is a very
dangerous region. He said that the MOU serves as a concrete
reminder that the U.S. stands by its long-term security
commitments to its friends, and is ready to help them with
their needs. The Under Secretary noted that the Middle East
is now at the heart of American interests. Because Egypt
also plays a vital role in the region, the U.S. would also
renew its security assistance commitment to that country.
U.S. relations with the Gulf states were longstanding, and
America would stay true to those friendships, as well. The
Under Secretary stressed that the USG is committed to
Israel's QME. He noted that the majority of systems and
equipment that the U.S. would sell to Egypt and other Arab
partners would replace items that had been sold to those
countries in the past.
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DAGAN REVIEWS MIDDLE EAST, PAKISTAN, TURKEY
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¶4. (S) Assessing the region, Dagan said Israel sees itself in
the middle of a rapidly changing environment, in which the
fate of one Middle Eastern country is connected to another.
Dagan then said he was concerned about how long Pakistani
President Musharraf would survive: "He is facing a serious
problem with the militants. Pakistan's nuclear capability
could end up in the hands of an Islamic regime." Turning to
Iran, Dagan observed that it is in a transition period.
There is debate among the leadership between Rafsanjani and
Ahmadinejad and their respective supporters. Instability in
Iran is driven by inflation and tension among ethnic
minorities. This, Dagan said, presents unique opportunities,
and Israelis and Americans might see a change in Iran in
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their lifetimes. As for Iraq, it may end up a weak, federal
state comprised of three cantons or entities, one each
belonging to the Kurds, Sunnis and Shias.
¶5. (S) Dagan said that the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia are
concerned about the growing importance of Iran and its
influence on them. They are taking precautions, trying to
increase their own military defensive capabilities.
Referring to the Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD), Dagan warned
that these countries would not be able to cope with the
amount of weapons systems they intend to acquire: "They do
not use the weapons effectively."
¶6. (S) Dagan said that Jordan has successfully faced down
threats from the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, and that Egypt
is struggling with the question of who will replace President
Mubarak. He said he sees no hope for the Palestinians, and
that Israel looks at Syria and Lebanon, and sees only
instability. Further afield, it looks at Turkey and sees
Islamists gaining momentum there. The question, he asked, is
how long Turkey's military -- viewing itself as the defender
of Turkey's secular identity -- will remain quiet.
¶7. (S) If Israel's neighborhood were not unstable enough,
Dagan observed, it did not help that Russia is playing a
"very negative role" in the region. He observed that all of
these challenges have to be addressed globally -- they could
not be dealt with individually. Returning to Jordan as an
example, he noted that the more than one million Iraqi
refugees in Jordan were changing Jordanian society, and
forcing it into a new relationship with Saudi Arabia. This
is evidenced by Saudi King Abdullah's recent visit to Jordan,
which implies greater understanding between the Jordanians
and the Saudis.
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DISCUSSION OF THE GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE
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¶8. (S) Turning to the Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD), Dagan
said that enhancing the capabilities of the Gulf states "is
the right direction to go," especially as they are afraid of
Iran. Such a U.S. commitment will be a stabilizing factor in
the region. Dagan clarified that he would not oppose U.S.
security assistance to America's Arab partners. He expressed
concern, nevertheless, about the current policies of those
partners -- especially with regards to Syria and Iran. Dagan
added that if those countries must choose between buying
defensive systems from the U.S. or France, then he would
prefer they buy systems from the U.S., as this would bring
them closer to the U.S.
¶9. (S) Dagan observed that the challenge facing the U.S. now
is how to unite the Gulf states under a shared policy, and
pointed to Qatar as the weakest link in the chain, trying to
play all sides. Under Secretary Burns replied that the U.S.
is trying to get Qatar and its neighbors to look at issues
from a regional perspective, and to focus on threats in a
unified way. Acting PM Assistant Secretary Mull expressed
understanding for Israel's frustration with how the region
looked, but stressed nevertheless that if America did not
engage the Gulf states through the GSD, the situation would
become much worse. It is critical to get the Gulf states
focused on the Iran threat, and to adopt a regional approach
to countering it. Encouraging and supporting their
counterproliferation efforts would be crucial. Dagan said he
agreed with this approach, stressing that the threat of
radical Islam is real.
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IRAN: DAGAN REVIEWS ISRAEL'S FIVE PILLAR STRATEGY
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¶10. (S) Dagan led discussion on Iran by pointing out that the
U.S. and Israel have different timetables concerning when
Iran is likely to acquire a nuclear capability. He clarified
that the Israel Atomic Energy Commission's (IAEC) timetable
is purely technical in nature, while the Mossad's considers
other factors, including the regime's determination to
succeed. While Dagan acknowledged that there is still time
to "resolve" the Iran nuclear crisis, he stressed that Iran
is making a great effort to achieve a nuclear capability:
"The threat is obvious, even if we have a different
timetable. If we want to postpone their acquisition of a
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nuclear capability, then we have to invest time and effort
ourselves."
¶11. (S) Dagan described how the Israeli strategy consists of
five pillars:
A) Political Approach: Dagan praised efforts to bring Iran
before the UNSC, and signaled his agreement with the pursuit
of a third sanctions resolution. He acknowledged that
pressure on Iran is building up, but said this approach alone
will not resolve the crisis. He stressed that the timetable
for political action is different than the nuclear project's
timetable.
B) Covert Measures: Dagan and the Under Secretary agreed not
to discuss this approach in the larger group setting.
C) Counterproliferation: Dagan underscored the need to
prevent know-how and technology from making their way to
Iran, and said that more can be done in this area.
D) Sanctions: Dagan said that the biggest successes had so
far been in this area. Three Iranian banks are on the verge
of collapse. The financial sanctions are having a nationwide
impact. Iran's regime can no longer just deal with the
bankers themselves.
E) Force Regime Change: Dagan said that more should be done
to foment regime change in Iran, possibly with the support of
student democracy movements, and ethnic groups (e.g., Azeris,
Kurds, Baluchs) opposed to the ruling regime.
¶12. (S) Dagan clarified that the U.S., Israel and like-minded
countries must push on all five pillars at the same time.
Some are bearing fruit now; others would bear fruit in due
time, especially if more attention were placed on them.
Dagan urged more attention on regime change, asserting that
more could be done to develop the identities of ethnic
minorities in Iran. He said he was sure that Israel and the
U.S. could "change the ruling regime in Iran, and its
attitude towards backing terror regimes." He added, "We
could also get them to delay their nuclear project. Iran
could become a normal state."
¶13. (S) Dagan stressed that Iran has weak spots that can be
exploited. According to his information, unemployment
exceeds 30 percent nationwide, with some towns and villages
experiencing 50 percent unemployment, especially among 17-30
year olds. Inflation averages more than 40 percent, and
people are criticizing the government for investing in and
sponsoring Hamas, saying that they government should invest
in Iran itself. "The economy is hurting," he said, "and this
is provoking a real crisis among Iran's leaders." He added
that Iran's minorities are "raising their heads, and are
tempted to resort to violence."
¶14. (S) Dagan suggested that more could be done to get the
Europeans to take a tougher stand against Iran. Under
Secretary Burns agreed, and suggested that Israel could help
SIPDIS
by reaching out to the Europeans. Dagan said that Israel is
already doing this, and would continue to do so. Dagan
reiterated the need to strike at Iran's heart by engaging
with its people directly. Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts
are important, but more radio transmissions in Farsi are
needed. Coordination with the Gulf states is helpful, but
the U.S. should also coordinate with Azerbaijan and countries
to the north of Iran, to put pressure on Iran. Russia, he
said, would be annoyed, but it would be fitting, as Russia
appears bent on showing the U.S. that it cannot act globally
without considering Russia.
¶15. (S) Under Secretary Burns stressed that the USG is
focused on Iran not only because of its nuclear program, but
also because it supports terrorism and Shiite militias in
Iraq. The U.S. approach is currently focused on the
diplomatic track and increasing pressure on Iran through
sanctions. Work in the UNSC helps to define the Iranian
nuclear threat as one that affects international security,
and not just that of Israel. While UNSC members Russia,
China and Qatar will water down efforts to increase pressure
on Iran, it is still worthwhile to push for a third sanctions
resolution. In the meantime, the U.S. will encourage the
Europeans, Japan and South Korea to implement unilateral
sanctions against Iran outside the UNSC framework. The U.S.
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will continue to encourage banks and financial institutions
to slow down their operations in Iran and financially isolate
it. Regarding military pressure, the Under Secretary noted
that the U.S. has deployed 1-2 carrier battle groups in the
Gulf over the last six months, and that President Bush has
stated that he will interrupt Iran's activity in Iraq. As
for outreach to the Iranian people, the VOA is now
broadcasting programs in Farsi, and the USG is trying to get
more Iranian students to visit the U.S. to promote
people-to-people relations.
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PAKISTAN: ISRAEL WORRIED ABOUT MUSHARRAF
-----------------------------------------
¶16. (S) On Pakistan, Dagan said that President Musharraf is
losing control, and that some of his coalition partners could
threaten him in the future. The key question, Dagan said, is
whether Musharraf retains his commander-in-chief role in
addition to his role as president. If not, he will have
problems. Dagan observed that there has been an increase in
the number of attempts on Musharraf's life, and wondered
whether he will survive the next few years. Under Secretary
Burns replied that South Asia has assumed vital importance in
American foreign policy since September 11. The U.S. is
committed to denying Afghanistan as a safe-haven for Taliban
and Al-Qaeda activity. The USG will continue to support
Pakistani President Musharraf, and is seeking to boost his
military defensive capabilities. At the same time, the U.S.
is encouraging Pakistan and Afghanistan to work with each
other militarily. Turning to India, Under Secretary Burns
noted that U.S.-Indian economic cooperation is growing, and
that the USG is working effectively to reduce tensions
between India and Pakistan.
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LEBANON: DAGAN URGES CAUTION
-----------------------------
¶17. (S) Dagan urged caution with respect to Lebanon, noting
that the results of efforts there to bolster the Siniora
government would impact Syria and Iraq. The U.S. and Israel,
he said, are on the edge of achieving something in Lebanon,
and so cannot afford to drop their guard. What is necessary
is finding the right way to support PM Siniora. "He is a
courageous man," Dagan said. Syria, Iran and Hizballah are
working hard against him. Dagan noted that much of what is
animating the leadership of Lebanon to take on Syria is
personal: "Hariri, Jumblat and others had their parents
executed by the Syrians." This anti-Syrian sentiment has
forged an alliance based on personal and national interests.
Siniora has worked well with the situation, but Dagan
suggested that the odds are against him. Under Secretary
Burns replied that the U.S. is trying to give PM Siniora as
much support as possible, and that we would continue to
consult closely with Israel on Lebanon. He noted that he
would return to Israel in October.
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MEETING PARTICIPANTS
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18, (SBU) Accompanying Under Secretary Burns in the meeting
were:
-- Ambassador Richard H. Jones
-- Acting PM Assistant Secretary Stephen Mull
-- Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Affairs Mary Beth Long
-- NEA/IPA Deputy Director Nicole Shampaine
-- Embassy Tel Aviv Counselor for Political Research
-- Embassy Tel Aviv Political-Military Officer (notetaker)
¶19. (SBU) Accompanying Mossad Chief Meir Dagan in the meeting
were:
-- Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Salai Meridor
-- Advisor to Foreign Minister Livni Omer Caspi
-- Two unidentified Mossad officials
¶20. (U) Under Secretary R. Nicholas Burns cleared on this
cable.
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SUBJECT: U/S BURNS' AUGUST 17 MEETING WITH ISRAELI MOSSAD
CHIEF MEIR DAGAN
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SUMMARY
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¶1. (S) In an August 17 meeting, Israeli Mossad Chief Meir
Dagan thanked Under Secretary Burns for America's support of
Israel as evidenced by the previous day's signing of an MOU
that provides Israel with USD 30 billion in security
assistance from 2008-2018. Dagan provided his assessment of
the Middle East region, Pakistan and Turkey, stressing
Israel's (a) concern for President Musharraf's well-being,
(b) view that Iran can be forced to change its behavior, and
(c) sense that Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are
unstable with unclear futures ahead of them. Dagan probed
for more detail about XXXXXXXXXXXX U.S. military assistance
to the Gulf states, and -- while signaling agreement with the
U.S. approach to the Gulf states vis-a-vis Iran -- cautioned that
they may not be able to absorb significant military assistance.
Dagan reviewed Israel's five-pillar strategy concerning
Iran's nuclear program, stressed that Iran is economicall
vulnerable, and pressed for more activity with Iran's
minority groups aimed at regime change. Dagan urged
caution in providing assistance to the Siniora government in
Lebanon, noting Syrian and Iranian efforts to topple the GOL.
¶2. (S) Under Secretary Burns cited the MOU as tangible
evidence of the USG's commitment to Israel, and stressed that
the U.S. would support all of its friends -- Arabs included
-- in the Middle East, and will remain engaged in the region
for the long term. He described U.S. efforts to support the
Musharraf and Karzai governments as they face opposition from
Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and explained that the Gulf
Security Dialogue is meant to bolster Gulf states facing
threats from Iran. The Under Secretary reviewed U.S. efforts
to isolate Iran and increase pressure on it, stressing that
the U.S. is currently focused on the diplomatic track. He
shared USG thinking about the Siniora government in Lebanon,
and urged that the U.S. and Israel continue to consult on
Lebanon. END SUMMARY.
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THE SECURITY ASSISTANCE MOU AND ISRAEL'S QME
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¶3. (S) Dagan observed that the signing of the MOU on
security assistance could not have come at a better time, and
stressed that Israel appreciated America's support. The
Under Secretary agreed about the timing, noting that the
U.S., Israel and like-minded countries were facing multiple
threats around the world, and that the Middle East is a very
dangerous region. He said that the MOU serves as a concrete
reminder that the U.S. stands by its long-term security
commitments to its friends, and is ready to help them with
their needs. The Under Secretary noted that the Middle East
is now at the heart of American interests. Because Egypt
also plays a vital role in the region, the U.S. would also
renew its security assistance commitment to that country.
U.S. relations with the Gulf states were longstanding, and
America would stay true to those friendships, as well. The
Under Secretary stressed that the USG is committed to
Israel's QME. He noted that the majority of systems and
equipment that the U.S. would sell to Egypt and other Arab
partners would replace items that had been sold to those
countries in the past.
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DAGAN REVIEWS MIDDLE EAST, PAKISTAN, TURKEY
-------------------------------------------
¶4. (S) Assessing the region, Dagan said Israel sees itself in
the middle of a rapidly changing environment, in which the
fate of one Middle Eastern country is connected to another.
Dagan then said he was concerned about how long Pakistani
President Musharraf would survive: "He is facing a serious
problem with the militants. Pakistan's nuclear capability
could end up in the hands of an Islamic regime." Turning to
Iran, Dagan observed that it is in a transition period.
There is debate among the leadership between Rafsanjani and
Ahmadinejad and their respective supporters. Instability in
Iran is driven by inflation and tension among ethnic
minorities. This, Dagan said, presents unique opportunities,
and Israelis and Americans might see a change in Iran in
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their lifetimes. As for Iraq, it may end up a weak, federal
state comprised of three cantons or entities, one each
belonging to the Kurds, Sunnis and Shias.
¶5. (S) Dagan said that the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia are
concerned about the growing importance of Iran and its
influence on them. They are taking precautions, trying to
increase their own military defensive capabilities.
Referring to the Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD), Dagan warned
that these countries would not be able to cope with the
amount of weapons systems they intend to acquire: "They do
not use the weapons effectively."
¶6. (S) Dagan said that Jordan has successfully faced down
threats from the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, and that Egypt
is struggling with the question of who will replace President
Mubarak. He said he sees no hope for the Palestinians, and
that Israel looks at Syria and Lebanon, and sees only
instability. Further afield, it looks at Turkey and sees
Islamists gaining momentum there. The question, he asked, is
how long Turkey's military -- viewing itself as the defender
of Turkey's secular identity -- will remain quiet.
¶7. (S) If Israel's neighborhood were not unstable enough,
Dagan observed, it did not help that Russia is playing a
"very negative role" in the region. He observed that all of
these challenges have to be addressed globally -- they could
not be dealt with individually. Returning to Jordan as an
example, he noted that the more than one million Iraqi
refugees in Jordan were changing Jordanian society, and
forcing it into a new relationship with Saudi Arabia. This
is evidenced by Saudi King Abdullah's recent visit to Jordan,
which implies greater understanding between the Jordanians
and the Saudis.
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DISCUSSION OF THE GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE
----------------------------------------
¶8. (S) Turning to the Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD), Dagan
said that enhancing the capabilities of the Gulf states "is
the right direction to go," especially as they are afraid of
Iran. Such a U.S. commitment will be a stabilizing factor in
the region. Dagan clarified that he would not oppose U.S.
security assistance to America's Arab partners. He expressed
concern, nevertheless, about the current policies of those
partners -- especially with regards to Syria and Iran. Dagan
added that if those countries must choose between buying
defensive systems from the U.S. or France, then he would
prefer they buy systems from the U.S., as this would bring
them closer to the U.S.
¶9. (S) Dagan observed that the challenge facing the U.S. now
is how to unite the Gulf states under a shared policy, and
pointed to Qatar as the weakest link in the chain, trying to
play all sides. Under Secretary Burns replied that the U.S.
is trying to get Qatar and its neighbors to look at issues
from a regional perspective, and to focus on threats in a
unified way. Acting PM Assistant Secretary Mull expressed
understanding for Israel's frustration with how the region
looked, but stressed nevertheless that if America did not
engage the Gulf states through the GSD, the situation would
become much worse. It is critical to get the Gulf states
focused on the Iran threat, and to adopt a regional approach
to countering it. Encouraging and supporting their
counterproliferation efforts would be crucial. Dagan said he
agreed with this approach, stressing that the threat of
radical Islam is real.
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IRAN: DAGAN REVIEWS ISRAEL'S FIVE PILLAR STRATEGY
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¶10. (S) Dagan led discussion on Iran by pointing out that the
U.S. and Israel have different timetables concerning when
Iran is likely to acquire a nuclear capability. He clarified
that the Israel Atomic Energy Commission's (IAEC) timetable
is purely technical in nature, while the Mossad's considers
other factors, including the regime's determination to
succeed. While Dagan acknowledged that there is still time
to "resolve" the Iran nuclear crisis, he stressed that Iran
is making a great effort to achieve a nuclear capability:
"The threat is obvious, even if we have a different
timetable. If we want to postpone their acquisition of a
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nuclear capability, then we have to invest time and effort
ourselves."
¶11. (S) Dagan described how the Israeli strategy consists of
five pillars:
A) Political Approach: Dagan praised efforts to bring Iran
before the UNSC, and signaled his agreement with the pursuit
of a third sanctions resolution. He acknowledged that
pressure on Iran is building up, but said this approach alone
will not resolve the crisis. He stressed that the timetable
for political action is different than the nuclear project's
timetable.
B) Covert Measures: Dagan and the Under Secretary agreed not
to discuss this approach in the larger group setting.
C) Counterproliferation: Dagan underscored the need to
prevent know-how and technology from making their way to
Iran, and said that more can be done in this area.
D) Sanctions: Dagan said that the biggest successes had so
far been in this area. Three Iranian banks are on the verge
of collapse. The financial sanctions are having a nationwide
impact. Iran's regime can no longer just deal with the
bankers themselves.
E) Force Regime Change: Dagan said that more should be done
to foment regime change in Iran, possibly with the support of
student democracy movements, and ethnic groups (e.g., Azeris,
Kurds, Baluchs) opposed to the ruling regime.
¶12. (S) Dagan clarified that the U.S., Israel and like-minded
countries must push on all five pillars at the same time.
Some are bearing fruit now; others would bear fruit in due
time, especially if more attention were placed on them.
Dagan urged more attention on regime change, asserting that
more could be done to develop the identities of ethnic
minorities in Iran. He said he was sure that Israel and the
U.S. could "change the ruling regime in Iran, and its
attitude towards backing terror regimes." He added, "We
could also get them to delay their nuclear project. Iran
could become a normal state."
¶13. (S) Dagan stressed that Iran has weak spots that can be
exploited. According to his information, unemployment
exceeds 30 percent nationwide, with some towns and villages
experiencing 50 percent unemployment, especially among 17-30
year olds. Inflation averages more than 40 percent, and
people are criticizing the government for investing in and
sponsoring Hamas, saying that they government should invest
in Iran itself. "The economy is hurting," he said, "and this
is provoking a real crisis among Iran's leaders." He added
that Iran's minorities are "raising their heads, and are
tempted to resort to violence."
¶14. (S) Dagan suggested that more could be done to get the
Europeans to take a tougher stand against Iran. Under
Secretary Burns agreed, and suggested that Israel could help
SIPDIS
by reaching out to the Europeans. Dagan said that Israel is
already doing this, and would continue to do so. Dagan
reiterated the need to strike at Iran's heart by engaging
with its people directly. Voice of America (VOA) broadcasts
are important, but more radio transmissions in Farsi are
needed. Coordination with the Gulf states is helpful, but
the U.S. should also coordinate with Azerbaijan and countries
to the north of Iran, to put pressure on Iran. Russia, he
said, would be annoyed, but it would be fitting, as Russia
appears bent on showing the U.S. that it cannot act globally
without considering Russia.
¶15. (S) Under Secretary Burns stressed that the USG is
focused on Iran not only because of its nuclear program, but
also because it supports terrorism and Shiite militias in
Iraq. The U.S. approach is currently focused on the
diplomatic track and increasing pressure on Iran through
sanctions. Work in the UNSC helps to define the Iranian
nuclear threat as one that affects international security,
and not just that of Israel. While UNSC members Russia,
China and Qatar will water down efforts to increase pressure
on Iran, it is still worthwhile to push for a third sanctions
resolution. In the meantime, the U.S. will encourage the
Europeans, Japan and South Korea to implement unilateral
sanctions against Iran outside the UNSC framework. The U.S.
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will continue to encourage banks and financial institutions
to slow down their operations in Iran and financially isolate
it. Regarding military pressure, the Under Secretary noted
that the U.S. has deployed 1-2 carrier battle groups in the
Gulf over the last six months, and that President Bush has
stated that he will interrupt Iran's activity in Iraq. As
for outreach to the Iranian people, the VOA is now
broadcasting programs in Farsi, and the USG is trying to get
more Iranian students to visit the U.S. to promote
people-to-people relations.
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PAKISTAN: ISRAEL WORRIED ABOUT MUSHARRAF
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¶16. (S) On Pakistan, Dagan said that President Musharraf is
losing control, and that some of his coalition partners could
threaten him in the future. The key question, Dagan said, is
whether Musharraf retains his commander-in-chief role in
addition to his role as president. If not, he will have
problems. Dagan observed that there has been an increase in
the number of attempts on Musharraf's life, and wondered
whether he will survive the next few years. Under Secretary
Burns replied that South Asia has assumed vital importance in
American foreign policy since September 11. The U.S. is
committed to denying Afghanistan as a safe-haven for Taliban
and Al-Qaeda activity. The USG will continue to support
Pakistani President Musharraf, and is seeking to boost his
military defensive capabilities. At the same time, the U.S.
is encouraging Pakistan and Afghanistan to work with each
other militarily. Turning to India, Under Secretary Burns
noted that U.S.-Indian economic cooperation is growing, and
that the USG is working effectively to reduce tensions
between India and Pakistan.
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LEBANON: DAGAN URGES CAUTION
-----------------------------
¶17. (S) Dagan urged caution with respect to Lebanon, noting
that the results of efforts there to bolster the Siniora
government would impact Syria and Iraq. The U.S. and Israel,
he said, are on the edge of achieving something in Lebanon,
and so cannot afford to drop their guard. What is necessary
is finding the right way to support PM Siniora. "He is a
courageous man," Dagan said. Syria, Iran and Hizballah are
working hard against him. Dagan noted that much of what is
animating the leadership of Lebanon to take on Syria is
personal: "Hariri, Jumblat and others had their parents
executed by the Syrians." This anti-Syrian sentiment has
forged an alliance based on personal and national interests.
Siniora has worked well with the situation, but Dagan
suggested that the odds are against him. Under Secretary
Burns replied that the U.S. is trying to give PM Siniora as
much support as possible, and that we would continue to
consult closely with Israel on Lebanon. He noted that he
would return to Israel in October.
--------------------
MEETING PARTICIPANTS
--------------------
18, (SBU) Accompanying Under Secretary Burns in the meeting
were:
-- Ambassador Richard H. Jones
-- Acting PM Assistant Secretary Stephen Mull
-- Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Affairs Mary Beth Long
-- NEA/IPA Deputy Director Nicole Shampaine
-- Embassy Tel Aviv Counselor for Political Research
-- Embassy Tel Aviv Political-Military Officer (notetaker)
¶19. (SBU) Accompanying Mossad Chief Meir Dagan in the meeting
were:
-- Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Salai Meridor
-- Advisor to Foreign Minister Livni Omer Caspi
-- Two unidentified Mossad officials
¶20. (U) Under Secretary R. Nicholas Burns cleared on this
cable.
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المعارضة الاردنية في امريكا احرجت الملك امام ملايين الامريكان واعدت للمواجهة الاعلامية معه بشكل جيد
المعارضة الاردنية في امريكا احرجت الملك امام ملايين الامريكان واعدت للمواجهة الاعلامية معه بشكل جيد
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عرب تايمز - خاص
تسببت المعارضة الاردنية في امريكا والتي يتزعمها عدد من الاردنيين من ابناء العشائر الاردنية الكبيرة وممن يحملون درجات الدكتوراه ويعملون في الجامعات الامريكية تسببت باحراج الملك الاردني امام الملايين من المشاهدين الامريكيين عندما استبقت زيارة الملك بتحرك اعلامي وسياسي مؤثر سلمت خلاله البيت الابيض بياناتها ضد الملك وضد الفساد في الاردن وقدمت لوسائل الاعلام الامريكية تقارير عن انتهاكات حقوق الانسان في الاردن وخصت وسائل الاعلام التي يتردد عليها الملك كلما حط الرحال في امريكا
لذا عندما رتب ايمن الصفدي مستشار الملك الصحفي لقاء للملك مع برنامج واجه الصحافة لم يكن يعلم ان الشباب سبقوه وسلموا ادارة البرنامج تقارير منظمات حقوق الانسان حول التعذيب في الاردن ... ولم يكتشف الملك الخازوق الا بعد ان فتح مقدم البرنامج ديفد غريغوري موضوع التعذيب في السجون وسأل الملك عن موقفه من التعذيب على هامش ادانة اوباما ورفضه لوسائل التعذيب التي اتبعتها بعض الاجهزة الامريكية
الملك تلعثم في رده وزعم انه يرفض هذه الوسائل بل وذهب بعيدا عندما استنكر قيام الولايات المتحدة بالتعذيب
هنا سحب ديفد غريغوري تقريرا امامه صدر عن منظمات حقوق الانسان وقرأ فقرة منه تقول ان الاردن ولمدة اربع سنوات قام بتعذيب مواطنين في سجونه لصالح المخابرات المركزية
الملك الذي فوجيء بالسؤال قال انه لا يعرف وانه سأل رئيس مخابراته عن هذا الاتهام وان رئيس مخابراته نفى ان تكون المخابرات الاردنية قد عذبت احدا في سجونها لصالح الولايات المتحدة وظهر الملك ساذجا في نفيه الذي اكدته مصادر في الكونغرس ايضا
لقد اعتاد الملك من قبل على الضحك على ذقون الاعلاميين الامريكيين من خلال اللعب على الحبال والقول امام شاشاتهم ما يخالف ما يقوله في قصره ويبدو ان المعارضة الاردنية في امريكا نجحت في لفت انظار الاعلاميين الامريكيين الى هذا التكتيك فاعدوا له بشكل جيد هذه المرة وبدا هذا واضحا من طريقة الاعلامي الامريكي الكبير ديفد غريغوري في استنطاق الملك ... فقد وجه اليه السؤال اولا عن التعذيب في امريكا .. ثم عن راي الملك الشخصي في التعذيب ... ثم ساله : هل تعذبون الناس في الاردن ولما نفى الملك ذلك اخرج له ديفد غريغوري تقرير منظمات حقوق الانسان وكان من الواضح ان التقرير كان معدا سلفا ومصورا بالكاميرا وهو ما احرج الملك الكذاب وجعله يرمي التبعة على اكتاف رئيس المخابرات ما قبل السابق الذي لن يرد على جلالته طبعا لاننا اعتدنا ان يستعمل ملوك الاردن رؤساء المخابرات كمماسح للزفر
وكان المركز الوطني لحقوق الإنسان في الاردن قد اكد ازدياد أعمال الشغب في السجون الأردنية خلال عام ،2008 في تقرير حول واقع حقوق الإنسان في البلاد خلال العام الماضي.وقال المركز الأردني المستقل الذي نفذ 32 زيارة لسجون الأردن العشرة خلال العام الماضي في تقريره انه لاحظ ازدياد وتيرة الشغب داخل بعض السجون ما أسفر عن نتائج سلبية تمثلت أبرزها بوفاة ثلاثة سجناء نتيجة الاحتراق في سجن الموقر وإصابة 160 نزيلاً في ثلاثة سجون، وامتداد دائرة الشغب إلى أكثر من خمسة
وأضاف انه“تم منع فريق المركز من تنفيذ زيارته إلى السجون خلال الفترة من منتصف نيسان/ابريل وحتى بداية آب/أغسطس 2008 بسبب تقريره حول تلك الأحداث”. وانتقد المركز في تقريره أوضاع السجون وتحدث عن “استمرار عدد من السلبيات التي تؤثر في حقوق الأشخاص المحتجزين وتشكل انتهاكاً للمعايير الدولية ذات العلاقة
لمشاهدة ورطة الملك في برنامج واجه الصحافة ... انقر على الرابط التالي
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCeUmlru5S0&feature=related
Freedom for Jordan
May 02 2009 21:18
عرب تايمز - خاص
تسببت المعارضة الاردنية في امريكا والتي يتزعمها عدد من الاردنيين من ابناء العشائر الاردنية الكبيرة وممن يحملون درجات الدكتوراه ويعملون في الجامعات الامريكية تسببت باحراج الملك الاردني امام الملايين من المشاهدين الامريكيين عندما استبقت زيارة الملك بتحرك اعلامي وسياسي مؤثر سلمت خلاله البيت الابيض بياناتها ضد الملك وضد الفساد في الاردن وقدمت لوسائل الاعلام الامريكية تقارير عن انتهاكات حقوق الانسان في الاردن وخصت وسائل الاعلام التي يتردد عليها الملك كلما حط الرحال في امريكا
لذا عندما رتب ايمن الصفدي مستشار الملك الصحفي لقاء للملك مع برنامج واجه الصحافة لم يكن يعلم ان الشباب سبقوه وسلموا ادارة البرنامج تقارير منظمات حقوق الانسان حول التعذيب في الاردن ... ولم يكتشف الملك الخازوق الا بعد ان فتح مقدم البرنامج ديفد غريغوري موضوع التعذيب في السجون وسأل الملك عن موقفه من التعذيب على هامش ادانة اوباما ورفضه لوسائل التعذيب التي اتبعتها بعض الاجهزة الامريكية
الملك تلعثم في رده وزعم انه يرفض هذه الوسائل بل وذهب بعيدا عندما استنكر قيام الولايات المتحدة بالتعذيب
هنا سحب ديفد غريغوري تقريرا امامه صدر عن منظمات حقوق الانسان وقرأ فقرة منه تقول ان الاردن ولمدة اربع سنوات قام بتعذيب مواطنين في سجونه لصالح المخابرات المركزية
الملك الذي فوجيء بالسؤال قال انه لا يعرف وانه سأل رئيس مخابراته عن هذا الاتهام وان رئيس مخابراته نفى ان تكون المخابرات الاردنية قد عذبت احدا في سجونها لصالح الولايات المتحدة وظهر الملك ساذجا في نفيه الذي اكدته مصادر في الكونغرس ايضا
لقد اعتاد الملك من قبل على الضحك على ذقون الاعلاميين الامريكيين من خلال اللعب على الحبال والقول امام شاشاتهم ما يخالف ما يقوله في قصره ويبدو ان المعارضة الاردنية في امريكا نجحت في لفت انظار الاعلاميين الامريكيين الى هذا التكتيك فاعدوا له بشكل جيد هذه المرة وبدا هذا واضحا من طريقة الاعلامي الامريكي الكبير ديفد غريغوري في استنطاق الملك ... فقد وجه اليه السؤال اولا عن التعذيب في امريكا .. ثم عن راي الملك الشخصي في التعذيب ... ثم ساله : هل تعذبون الناس في الاردن ولما نفى الملك ذلك اخرج له ديفد غريغوري تقرير منظمات حقوق الانسان وكان من الواضح ان التقرير كان معدا سلفا ومصورا بالكاميرا وهو ما احرج الملك الكذاب وجعله يرمي التبعة على اكتاف رئيس المخابرات ما قبل السابق الذي لن يرد على جلالته طبعا لاننا اعتدنا ان يستعمل ملوك الاردن رؤساء المخابرات كمماسح للزفر
وكان المركز الوطني لحقوق الإنسان في الاردن قد اكد ازدياد أعمال الشغب في السجون الأردنية خلال عام ،2008 في تقرير حول واقع حقوق الإنسان في البلاد خلال العام الماضي.وقال المركز الأردني المستقل الذي نفذ 32 زيارة لسجون الأردن العشرة خلال العام الماضي في تقريره انه لاحظ ازدياد وتيرة الشغب داخل بعض السجون ما أسفر عن نتائج سلبية تمثلت أبرزها بوفاة ثلاثة سجناء نتيجة الاحتراق في سجن الموقر وإصابة 160 نزيلاً في ثلاثة سجون، وامتداد دائرة الشغب إلى أكثر من خمسة
وأضاف انه“تم منع فريق المركز من تنفيذ زيارته إلى السجون خلال الفترة من منتصف نيسان/ابريل وحتى بداية آب/أغسطس 2008 بسبب تقريره حول تلك الأحداث”. وانتقد المركز في تقريره أوضاع السجون وتحدث عن “استمرار عدد من السلبيات التي تؤثر في حقوق الأشخاص المحتجزين وتشكل انتهاكاً للمعايير الدولية ذات العلاقة
لمشاهدة ورطة الملك في برنامج واجه الصحافة ... انقر على الرابط التالي
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCeUmlru5S0&feature=related
Freedom for Jordan
Location:المملكة الاردنية
Saturday, December 18, 2010
ويكيليكس يعرض دور الأردن بأفغانستان
ويكيليكس يعرض دور الأردن بأفغانستان
جنود أردنيون يشيعون الشريف علي بن زيد الذي قتل في أفغانستان
(الأوروبية-أرشيف)
محمد النجار–عمان
كشفت وثيقة أميركية نشرها موقع ويكيليكس مطلع الشهر الجاري تعزيز الأردن قواته بأفغانستان، بعد الهجوم الذي قتل فيه أحد ضباط استخباراته إلى جانب سبعة من ضباط الاستخبارات المركزية الأميركية (سي آي أي)، نهاية العام الماضي في مدينة خوست الأفغانية.
وتحدثت الوثيقة عن تفاصيل لقاء في 12 يناير/كانون الثاني 2010 جمع وزير الخارجية الإماراتي عبد الله بن زايد مع المبعوث الأميركي لأفغانستان وباكستان ريتشارد هولبروك الذي توفي مساء أمس الاثنين.
وجاء في الوثيقة أن الوزير الإماراتي أبلغ هولبروك -خلال اجتماع إقليمي حول أفغانستان في أبو ظبي- أن وزير الخارجية الأردني ناصر جودة أبلغه عن خطط أردنية لإرسال مزيد من القوات لأفغانستان.
وأشارت إلى أن هولبورك ذكر أن جودة أكد له ذات الأمر خلال لقاء جمعه به في واشنطن، دون أن يحدد موعد ذلك اللقاء.
نفي
وينفى الأردن وجود أي دور عسكري له في أفغانستان منذ مقتل الضابط الأردني الشريف علي بن زيد -وهو من أقارب عاهل الأردن عبد الله الثاني- الذي قالت وسائل إعلام غربية مطلع العام الجاري أنه كان مسؤولا عن الطبيب الأردني همام البلوي الذي نفذ الهجوم على قاعدة خوست.
وفجر البلوي نفسه في القاعدة فقتل سبعة ضباط أميركيين وضابطا أردنيا، وقال في شريط مسجل بثته قناة الجزيرة إنه نفذ هذه العملية انتقاما لمقتل قائد حركة طالبان باكستان بيت الله محسود في غارة أميركية العام الماضي.
ولا يخفي الأردن قيامه بتدريب قوات أفغانية على أراضيه، فيما لم تعلن الحكومة حتى اليوم ردها على طلب تقدم به الأمين العام لحلف شمال الأطلسي (الناتو) فوغ راسموسن في مارس/آذار الماضي بأن يقوم الأردن بتدريب الجيش الأفغاني.
وقالت وكالة الأنباء الرسمية (بترا) مطلع أكتوبر/تشرين الأول الماضي إن الأردن أرسل "فريقا من المدربين من القوات المسلحة والأجهزة الأمنية"، وبثت صورة لوداع مسؤول عسكري لأعضاء في الفريق.
كما نشرت الوكالة نهاية الشهر نفسه زيارة قائد قوات التحالف بأفغانستان الجنرال ديفد بترايوس لإحدى السرايا التابعة لقوة الواجب الخاص الأردنية في منطقة كوشيه.
ليس سرا
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منذ بدء تسريبات ويكيليكس يرفض المسؤلون الأردنيون التعليق عليها، واكتفى مصدر أردني مسؤول بالقول في بيان رسمي "إن ما نشر في ويكيليكس يعكس تحليلات المسؤولين الأميركيين"
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ومنذ بدء تسريبات ويكيليكس رفض مسؤولون أردنيون التعليق عليها، واكتفى مصدر أردني مسؤول بالقول في بيان رسمي "إن ما نشر في ويكيليكس يعكس تحليلات المسؤولين الأميركيين".
ويرى الكاتب والمحلل السياسي فهد الخيطان أن الدور الأردني في أفغانستان "لم يعد سريا".
ولفت -في تعليق للجزيرة نت- إلى أن وزير الخارجية الأردني ناصر جودة قال -في مؤتمر صحفي مع نظيرته الأميركية هيلاري كلينتون بواشنطن بعد أيام من هجوم خوست- إن الأردن سيستمر في محاربة "الإرهاب" وسيزيد من وجوده في أفغانستان.
وأضاف أن "الوثيقة تحدثت عن الجانب المعلن وهو الوجود الأردني بأفغانستان، لكن غير المعلن هو التفاصيل اللوجستية لهذا الوجود الذي تؤكد قيادة الجيش الأردني أن دور القوات الأردنية فيه هو دور إنساني مرتبط أساسا بالمستشفى الميداني، إضافة لدور في الجانب الاجتماعي".
وأشار إلى أن المسؤولين في عمان يقولون إن تعزيز الوجود في أفغانستان لا يرتبط بوجود قوات مقاتلة هناك، بالرغم من حديث مصادر غربية عن مهمات سرية للأردن هناك.
وبرأيه فإن أهم ما تؤكده الوثيقة وتصريحات المسؤولين الأردنيين هو استمرار التنسيق الإستراتيجي الأردني الأميركي في إطار الحرب على ما يسمى "الإرهاب".
Freedom for Jordan
Location:المملكة الاردنية
IDF chief reported: Hezbollah was involved in attack on Israeli convoy in Jordan
WikiLeaks cables reveal that Israel had information that Hezbollah was involved in attack as a response to the assassination of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh.
By Barak Ravid
Tags: Israel news WikiLeaks Hezbollah Lebanon US Jordan
According to leaked U.S. cables, IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi told the United Nations' envoy to Lebanon in January that Israel holds information pointing to Hezbollah involvement in the attack on an Israeli diplomatic convoy in Jordan.
The attack was apparently part of a Hezbollah response to the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh, a militant commander killed in Damascus in 2008. Hezbollah has accused Israel for that attack.
Newly released WikiLeaks cables indicate that Israel warned U.S. and international officials of a serious response to any Hezbollah attack against Israeli targets abroad.
On January 29, 2010 the UN's envoy to Lebanon Michael Williams met with the U.S. envoy in Beirut Michele Sison and informed her of his conversations with officials in Israel.
According to the cable sent from the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Ashkenazi and Netanyahu's advisers expressed concern that Hezbollah would want to respond to the Feburary 2008 assassination of the top Hezbollah man Imad Mughniyeh.
"Ashkenazi said that Hezbollah was most probably involved in the attack on the Israeli diplomatic convoy in Jordan," the cable read. Williams warned the U.S. envoy that if there were to be another rocket attack on Israel from Lebanon, Israel will have to respond with magnified strength.
"UNIFIL will not be able to halt an escalation and everything that we have worked on would disappear within 12 hours," Williams warned.
Moreover, another U.S. cable revealed that in June of 2009, Nimrod Barkan, the head of the Foreign Ministry's Center for Political Research, and Amos Gilad, head of the Defense Ministry's political security department have cautioned against a Hezbollah attack as a response to Mughniyeh's assassination.
Barkan said that Israel has already foiled two terror attacks by Hezbollah in foreign countries.
"We have sensitive information that Hezbollah has completed its operational preparations for a third attack against Israeli targets abroad," said Barkan. "Until now, [Hezbollah head Hassan] Nasrallah hasn't decided whether to carry out the attack or not, despite Iranian pressure to go through with the attack. Israel will see Lebanon's government as responsible for any operation against Israel that comes from Lebanese territory."
Amos Gilad also emphasized that Hezbollah displayed restraint despite the Iranian pressure. "The next round of attacks will include missiles on Tel Aviv," said Gilad. "If that were to happen, the Israeli response would be very serious and include all of Lebanon."
The assassination of Imad Mughniyeh was also noted in the cables sent from the U.S. embassy in Damascus. An official standing in for the U.S. envoy wrote on Feburary 28, 2008, several days following the assassination of Mughniyeh, that an internal blame war is taking place in Syria between the general intelligence and the military intelligence who are both blaming each other for the security breach which enabled the Mughniyeh assassination.
The U.S. embassy in Damascus reported in December of 2009 that the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Qassem Suleimani visited Damascus after a long period of tensions between Syria and Iran due to the assassination of Mughniyeh in Feburary 2008
In January 2010, an explosive device was detonated against a two-car convoy of Israeli diplomats in Jordan.
The explosion occurred as the diplomats, traveling in armored vehicles, were passing the town of Na'ur, about 20 kilometers from the Allenby Bridge, which they were planning to cross for a weekend in Israel.
Another U.S. cable WikiLeaks recently revealed portrays strong concern in the Arab world regarding the Hezbollah takeover of Lebanon in May of 2008.
A cable sent from the U.S. embassy in Riyadh reported a meeting between the U.S. envoy in Iraq David Satterfield and Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal. The Saudi minister said that there is a need for a "security response" to Hezbollah's attempt to challenge the Lebanese government.
Saud al-Faisal called for an 'Arab force' to be established which will maintain order in and around Beirut. He said the force must work with UNIFIL, and the U.S. and NATO would also have to provide support. Al-Faisal said that a Hezbollah victory means the end of the Lebanese government and the beginning of an Iranian takeover of Lebanon.
Freedom for Jordan
Location:Kingdom of Jordan
Jordanian soccer match shows East, West bank tensions
By HERB KEINON
07/12/2010
WikiLeaks: "East Bank" team's fans mock Hashemite Kingdom's Queen Rania's Palestinian origins: "divorce her, and we'll marry you two of ours."
Anti-Palestinian taunts at a Jordanian soccer game last year revealed an undercurrent of rarely reported ethnic tension inside the Hashemite Kingdom, according to one of the US cables released by WikiLeaks on Monday.
According to the dispatch, written on July 28, 2009, by the US charge d’affaires in Amman, Lawrence Mandel, “Anti-Palestinian hooliganism and slogans denigrating the Palestinian origins of both the Queen and the Crown Prince led to the cancellation of a July 17 soccer game” between two rival teams, one – Faisali – which “is the favored team of tribal East Bankers,” and the other – Wahadat – the “proxy champions” of the Palestinian Jordanians.
Faisali supporters chanted about the Palestinian origins of Queen Rania with the cheer, “Divorce her you father of Hussein, and we’ll marry you to two of ours.”
According to the dispatch, “There is broad recognition throughout Jordan that the Faisali-Wahdat incident exposed the uncomfortable gap between East Bankers and Palestinian-origin Jordanians – one that most would rather keep well-hidden for the sake of political stability.
“The connection between this rift and the Hashemite monarchy, including the newly-appointed Crown Prince, makes the incident even more unsettling.”
The charges d’affaires said that even the “most forthcoming contacts” were reluctant to talk about the issue, “recognizing that it strikes at the core of Jordanian identity politics.”
One source was quoted as saying that non-Palestinian East Bankers are “uncomfortable with the increasing pressures for reform that will inevitably lessen their near-monopoly on political and social power.”
The dispatch said that Jordan’s “self-censoring media” did not deal with the hooliganism at the game, nor tell why the game was called off. Internet news sites, however, were replete with commentary on the game.
Many on the Internet “defended the Faisali supporters as ‘real’ Jordanians fighting against undue Palestinian influence.”
According to the dispatch, “The King’s silence on the game and its political implications is deafening. High level government contacts and members of the diplomatic community are puzzled by the King’s failure to respond to a verbal attack on his family that also dips into Jordanian identity politics.”
While perhaps unintentional, the dispatch read, “The King’s silence has effectively empowered the pro-status quo establishment.”
07/12/2010
WikiLeaks: "East Bank" team's fans mock Hashemite Kingdom's Queen Rania's Palestinian origins: "divorce her, and we'll marry you two of ours."
Anti-Palestinian taunts at a Jordanian soccer game last year revealed an undercurrent of rarely reported ethnic tension inside the Hashemite Kingdom, according to one of the US cables released by WikiLeaks on Monday.
According to the dispatch, written on July 28, 2009, by the US charge d’affaires in Amman, Lawrence Mandel, “Anti-Palestinian hooliganism and slogans denigrating the Palestinian origins of both the Queen and the Crown Prince led to the cancellation of a July 17 soccer game” between two rival teams, one – Faisali – which “is the favored team of tribal East Bankers,” and the other – Wahadat – the “proxy champions” of the Palestinian Jordanians.
Faisali supporters chanted about the Palestinian origins of Queen Rania with the cheer, “Divorce her you father of Hussein, and we’ll marry you to two of ours.”
According to the dispatch, “There is broad recognition throughout Jordan that the Faisali-Wahdat incident exposed the uncomfortable gap between East Bankers and Palestinian-origin Jordanians – one that most would rather keep well-hidden for the sake of political stability.
“The connection between this rift and the Hashemite monarchy, including the newly-appointed Crown Prince, makes the incident even more unsettling.”
The charges d’affaires said that even the “most forthcoming contacts” were reluctant to talk about the issue, “recognizing that it strikes at the core of Jordanian identity politics.”
One source was quoted as saying that non-Palestinian East Bankers are “uncomfortable with the increasing pressures for reform that will inevitably lessen their near-monopoly on political and social power.”
The dispatch said that Jordan’s “self-censoring media” did not deal with the hooliganism at the game, nor tell why the game was called off. Internet news sites, however, were replete with commentary on the game.
Many on the Internet “defended the Faisali supporters as ‘real’ Jordanians fighting against undue Palestinian influence.”
According to the dispatch, “The King’s silence on the game and its political implications is deafening. High level government contacts and members of the diplomatic community are puzzled by the King’s failure to respond to a verbal attack on his family that also dips into Jordanian identity politics.”
While perhaps unintentional, the dispatch read, “The King’s silence has effectively empowered the pro-status quo establishment.”
Location:Kingdom of Jordan
تجني و ظلم المخابرات الاردنية
أنا مواطن لبناني من بيروت ، من أب لبناني و أم أردنية ( فلسطينية الأصل) وأخواتي الأثنتين مطلقات من أردنيين . أملك محلا تجاريا لبيع الملبوسات الأوروبية في مدينة اربد ، حيث تقيم شقيقتي . ابتدأت القصّة من حوالي شهرين ، حيث اني كنت أتعرّض لمضايقات المخابرات الأردنية على الحدود بحجّة تشابه الأسماء ، ممّا يدعوني لمراجعة المخابرات العامّة في عمّان ، حيث كنت أتعرّض لضغوطات وتهديد بالسجن من قبل المحققين ، كي أعترف اني شيعي ومن حزب الله ، وحيث اني من بيروت ومن المذهب السني ، فقد اتهمت مرارا بأني متشيع وأني أجنّد ناس لحساب الحزب ، وفي نهاية كل تحقيق كان يتم تسليمي جواز سفري المحجوز ويتم تسريحي ، وبقيت على هذه الحالة ، حوالي شهرين وأسبوع الى أن تم استداعي من قبل المخابرات العامة في عمان بعد أن تم حجز جواز سفري على الحدود وذالك بغضون ثلاثة أيام ، وعند مراجعتي لهم تبين لي سبب ما كنت أمر به من ضغوط وتهديدات...الا وهو الاتي خيرت صراحة بين ابعادي عن الأردن وبين العمل لديهم في لبنان ، لتزويدهم بمعلومات عن حزب الله ...وعند رفضي صراحة لطلبهم ، أعطوني فترة عشرة أيام أصفي فيها أعمالي في اربد ، ومنها فرصة حسبما أعتقد لمراجعة نفسي ، حاولت اللجوء للعديد من ألأصحاب وألأصدقاء في مدينة أربد حيث أعمل ، ولكن لا أحد استطاع مساعدتي ، وقد ألصقوا بي تهمة أني فرد أو عنصر من حزب الله حاولت اللجوء للست بهية الحريري ، لكن عبثا أحلم بهذا اللقاء ، كما حاولت اللجوء للعديد من النواب أو الوزراء ، فلم أستطيع مقابلة رئيس الحرس محلي مقفل الأن في مدينة اربد ، ولا أعلم لمن ألتجأ سواكم ، وأنا جاهز لأي تحقيق أو مسائلة أو أي شي لكشف زيف الاتهامات الباطلة التي زيفت لي أرجو المساعدة ممن يقدر على ذالك ، علما اني تكلفة انشاء المحل والخلو والبضاعة قد كلفتني حوالي ال24 ألف دينار أردني ، والان لا أملك فلسا واحدا طلبي أن ينظر بوضعي من جهة التحقيق معي من أي جهة مخولة لفرض الحق ، أو تعويضي من قبل الحكومة الاردنية عن الخسائر التي لحقت بي ازاء اتهامات باطلة لا أساس لها من الصحة دمتم وشكرا لكل من يحاول رفع الظلم عنّي
Location:المملكة الاردنية
Jordan's Spy Agency: Holding Cell for the CIA
Foreign Terror Suspects Tell of Torture
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
AMMAN, Jordan -- Over the past seven years, an imposing building on the outskirts of this city has served as a secret holding cell for the CIA.
The building is the headquarters of the General Intelligence Department, Jordan's powerful spy and security agency. Since 2000, at the CIA's behest, at least 12 non-Jordanian terrorism suspects have been detained and interrogated here, according to documents and former prisoners, human rights advocates, defense lawyers and former U.S. officials.
In most of the cases, the spy center served as a covert way station for CIA prisoners captured in other countries. It was a place where they could be hidden after being arrested and kept for a few days or several months before being moved on to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or CIA prisons elsewhere in the world.
Others were arrested while transiting through Jordan, including two detained during stopovers at Amman's international airport. Another prisoner, a microbiology student captured in Pakistan in the weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has not been seen since he was flown to Amman on a CIA plane six years ago.
The most recent case to come to light involved a Palestinian detainee, Marwan al-Jabour, who was transferred to Jordan last year from a CIA-run secret prison, then released several weeks later in the Gaza Strip.
The General Intelligence Department, or GID, is perhaps the CIA's most trusted partner in the Arab world. The Jordanian agency has received money, training and equipment from the CIA for decades and even has a public English-language Web site. The relationship has deepened in recent years, with U.S. officials praising their Jordanian counterparts for the depth of their knowledge regarding al-Qaeda and other radical Islamic networks.
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, however, the GID was attractive for another reason, according to former U.S. counterterrorism officials and Jordanian human rights advocates. Its interrogators had a reputation for persuading tight-lipped suspects to talk, even if that meant using abusive tactics that could violate U.S. or international law.
"I was kidnapped, not knowing anything of my fate, with continuous torture and interrogation for the whole of two years," Al-Haj Abdu Ali Sharqawi, a Guantanamo prisoner from Yemen, recounted in a written account of his experiences in Jordanian custody. "When I told them the truth, I was tortured and beaten."
Sharqawi was captured in Karachi, Pakistan, in February 2002 in a joint Pakistani-U.S. operation. Although the Guantanamo Bay prison had just opened, the CIA flew him instead to Amman, where he was imprisoned for 19 months, according to his account and flight records. He was later taken to another CIA-run secret prison, his statement says, before he was finally moved to Guantanamo in February 2004.
Sharqawi said he was threatened with sexual abuse and electrocution while in Jordan. He also said he was hidden from officials of the International Committee for the Red Cross during their visits to inspect Jordanian prisons.
"I was told that if I wanted to leave with permanent disability both mental and physical, that that could be arranged," Sharqawi said in his April 2006 statement, which was released by a London-based attorney, Clive Stafford Smith, who represents Guantanamo inmates. "They said they had all the facilities of Jordan to achieve that. I was told that I had to talk, I had to tell them everything."
Bush administration officials have said they do not hand over terrorism suspects to countries that are likely to abuse them. For several years, however, the State Department has cited widespread allegations of torture by Jordan's security agencies in its annual report cards on human rights.
Independent monitors have become increasingly critical of Jordan's record. Since 2006, the United Nations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have issued reports on abuses in Jordan, often singling out the General Intelligence Department.
Former prisoners have reported that their captors were expert in two practices in particular: falaqa, or beating suspects on the soles of their feet with a truncheon and then, often, forcing them to walk barefoot and bloodied across a salt-covered floor; and farruj, or the "grilled chicken," in which prisoners are handcuffed behind their legs, hung upside down by a rod placed behind their knees, and beaten.
In a report released in January 2007, Manfred Nowak, the U.N. special investigator for torture, found that "the practice of torture is routine" at GID headquarters and concluded "that there is total impunity for torture and ill-treatment in the country."
Officials with the GID did not respond to a letter seeking an interview for this article. The Jordanian Foreign Ministry also did not respond to interview requests.
The CIA declined to comment on its relationship with the GID but defended in general the covert transfer of terrorism suspects to other countries, a practice known as rendition.
"The United States does not transfer individuals to any country if it believes they will be tortured there," said Paul Gimigliano, a CIA spokesman. "Setting aside the myths, rendition is, in fact, a lawful, effective tool that has been used over the years on a very limited scale, and is designed to take terrorists off the street."
'In Jordan, Nobody Asks'
Immediately after Sept. 11, the CIA had nowhere to hold terrorism suspects it had captured abroad. The military prison at Guantanamo did not open until January 2002. And it took the CIA until the spring of 2002 to get its own network of secret overseas prisons up and running.
Short on options, the CIA sought help from its counterparts in Jordan. Soon, CIA airplanes began carrying prisoners to Amman.
Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed, a Yemeni microbiology student, was captured in a U.S.-Pakistani operation in Karachi a few weeks after 9/11 on suspicion of helping to finance al-Qaeda operations. Witnesses reported seeing masked men take him aboard a Gulfstream V jet at the Karachi airport Oct. 24, 2001.
Records show that the plane was chartered by a CIA front company and that it flew directly to Amman. Mohammed has not been seen since. Amnesty International said it has asked the Jordanian government for information on his whereabouts but has not received an answer.
About the same time, Jamal Alawi Mari, another Yemeni citizen, was apprehended at his home in Karachi by Pakistani and U.S. agents. Records show that U.S. officials suspected him of working for Islamic charities that allegedly supported al-Qaeda.
Soon after, Mari was also flown by the CIA to Amman. "They never told me where I was going," he testified later before a U.S. military tribunal. "I found out later I was in Jordan."
Mari said he was imprisoned for four months in Jordan, out of sight of visiting Red Cross officials. In early 2002, he was taken to Guantanamo and remains imprisoned there.
Defense lawyers and human rights advocates in Amman said it wasn't a surprise that the CIA turned to Jordan's security agency for assistance.
"In America, people will ask about any breach of the law," said Younis Arab, a lawyer who has represented a CIA prisoner brought to Jordan. "Here in Jordan, nobody asks. So the Americans get the Jordanians to do the dirty work."
Other Jordanian lawyers cited unconfirmed reports that the CIA had transferred high-ranking al-Qaeda leaders to Jordan for interrogation. Although hard evidence is elusive, some former inmates have reported being detained in the same wing as Ramzi Binalshibh, a key planner in the Hamburg cell that carried out the Sept. 11 hijackings, said Abdulkareem al-Shureidah, an Amman lawyer.
"He was detained in Jordanian jails, definitely," Shureidah said of Binalshibh, who was kept in CIA custody in undisclosed locations from the time of his capture in Karachi in September 2002 until September 2006, when he was transferred to Guantanamo. "The U.S. brought all kinds of persons here from around the world."
Samieh Khreis, an Amman lawyer who has represented former Guantanamo inmates from Jordan, said testimony by former prisoners and others in Jordan reinforced a long-held suspicion that the CIA ran a satellite operation inside headquarters of the General Intelligence Department.
"Of course they had a jail here, a secret jail -- of course, no question," he said. "If they were to put me in that GID building over there, in my mind, it might as well be an American jail."
Khreis said the Jordanian spy service has a well-deserved reputation for using dubious tactics to force confessions. But he said the CIA sent prisoners to Amman primarily to take advantage of the GID's knowledge of Islamic radical groups.
"Torture is not the main reason," he said.
A Flat Denial
On June 26, 2006, just after 6 p.m., Nowak, the U.N. investigator, paid a surprise visit to GID headquarters in Amman.
The Jordanian government had previously agreed to give Nowak carte blanche to inspect any prison in the country, with no preconditions and unfettered access to inmates. As a new member of the U.N. Human Rights Council, Jordan was eager to win Nowak's seal of approval. GID officials permitted Nowak to tour its prison wing. But they refused to allow him to speak with prisoners in private. When Nowak asked about allegations that the CIA had used the building as a proxy jail, department officials said the reports were untrue.
"The response was just very flat, a simple denial, 'We don't know anything about that,' " Nowak recalled in an interview.
In interviews with former GID prisoners, Nowak said, he heard repeated, credible reports of inmates being subjected to electric shocks, sleep deprivation and various forms of beatings, including farruj and falaqa.
He said several inmates reported that their chief tormentor was Col. Ali Birjak, head of the GID's counterterrorism unit and one of the officials who had denied cooperating with the CIA. Based on those interviews, Nowak recommended in his report that Birjak be investigated by Jordanian authorities on torture charges.
In a written response to Nowak's findings on Oct. 10, 2006, the Jordanian government called the torture allegations "untrue" and noted that they were lodged by people with criminal records.
"It is common for prisoners to make false allegations about torture in a pathetic attempt to evade punishment and to influence the court," the government wrote.
In interviews with The Washington Post, however, former prisoners of the GID gave similar accounts of physical abuse.
Masaad Omer Behari, a Sudanese citizen, spent 86 days in the department's custody in early 2003 after he was arrested during a stopover at Amman's international airport.
Behari said his interrogators wanted to know about his activities in Vienna, where he had lived for more than a decade. He had been asked many of the same questions previously by the FBI and Austrian security officials about an alleged plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Vienna in 1998, he said, though he had denied any role and was never charged.
While he was in custody in Amman, Behari said, guards meted out a combination of falaqa and farruj. They struck the soles of his feet with batons while he was handcuffed and hanging upside down, then doused him with cold water and forced him to walk over a salt-strewn floor.
"I thought they were going to kill me," he said. "I said my prayers, thinking I was going to die."
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
AMMAN, Jordan -- Over the past seven years, an imposing building on the outskirts of this city has served as a secret holding cell for the CIA.
The building is the headquarters of the General Intelligence Department, Jordan's powerful spy and security agency. Since 2000, at the CIA's behest, at least 12 non-Jordanian terrorism suspects have been detained and interrogated here, according to documents and former prisoners, human rights advocates, defense lawyers and former U.S. officials.
In most of the cases, the spy center served as a covert way station for CIA prisoners captured in other countries. It was a place where they could be hidden after being arrested and kept for a few days or several months before being moved on to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or CIA prisons elsewhere in the world.
Others were arrested while transiting through Jordan, including two detained during stopovers at Amman's international airport. Another prisoner, a microbiology student captured in Pakistan in the weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has not been seen since he was flown to Amman on a CIA plane six years ago.
The most recent case to come to light involved a Palestinian detainee, Marwan al-Jabour, who was transferred to Jordan last year from a CIA-run secret prison, then released several weeks later in the Gaza Strip.
The General Intelligence Department, or GID, is perhaps the CIA's most trusted partner in the Arab world. The Jordanian agency has received money, training and equipment from the CIA for decades and even has a public English-language Web site. The relationship has deepened in recent years, with U.S. officials praising their Jordanian counterparts for the depth of their knowledge regarding al-Qaeda and other radical Islamic networks.
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, however, the GID was attractive for another reason, according to former U.S. counterterrorism officials and Jordanian human rights advocates. Its interrogators had a reputation for persuading tight-lipped suspects to talk, even if that meant using abusive tactics that could violate U.S. or international law.
"I was kidnapped, not knowing anything of my fate, with continuous torture and interrogation for the whole of two years," Al-Haj Abdu Ali Sharqawi, a Guantanamo prisoner from Yemen, recounted in a written account of his experiences in Jordanian custody. "When I told them the truth, I was tortured and beaten."
Sharqawi was captured in Karachi, Pakistan, in February 2002 in a joint Pakistani-U.S. operation. Although the Guantanamo Bay prison had just opened, the CIA flew him instead to Amman, where he was imprisoned for 19 months, according to his account and flight records. He was later taken to another CIA-run secret prison, his statement says, before he was finally moved to Guantanamo in February 2004.
Sharqawi said he was threatened with sexual abuse and electrocution while in Jordan. He also said he was hidden from officials of the International Committee for the Red Cross during their visits to inspect Jordanian prisons.
"I was told that if I wanted to leave with permanent disability both mental and physical, that that could be arranged," Sharqawi said in his April 2006 statement, which was released by a London-based attorney, Clive Stafford Smith, who represents Guantanamo inmates. "They said they had all the facilities of Jordan to achieve that. I was told that I had to talk, I had to tell them everything."
Bush administration officials have said they do not hand over terrorism suspects to countries that are likely to abuse them. For several years, however, the State Department has cited widespread allegations of torture by Jordan's security agencies in its annual report cards on human rights.
Independent monitors have become increasingly critical of Jordan's record. Since 2006, the United Nations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have issued reports on abuses in Jordan, often singling out the General Intelligence Department.
Former prisoners have reported that their captors were expert in two practices in particular: falaqa, or beating suspects on the soles of their feet with a truncheon and then, often, forcing them to walk barefoot and bloodied across a salt-covered floor; and farruj, or the "grilled chicken," in which prisoners are handcuffed behind their legs, hung upside down by a rod placed behind their knees, and beaten.
In a report released in January 2007, Manfred Nowak, the U.N. special investigator for torture, found that "the practice of torture is routine" at GID headquarters and concluded "that there is total impunity for torture and ill-treatment in the country."
Officials with the GID did not respond to a letter seeking an interview for this article. The Jordanian Foreign Ministry also did not respond to interview requests.
The CIA declined to comment on its relationship with the GID but defended in general the covert transfer of terrorism suspects to other countries, a practice known as rendition.
"The United States does not transfer individuals to any country if it believes they will be tortured there," said Paul Gimigliano, a CIA spokesman. "Setting aside the myths, rendition is, in fact, a lawful, effective tool that has been used over the years on a very limited scale, and is designed to take terrorists off the street."
'In Jordan, Nobody Asks'
Immediately after Sept. 11, the CIA had nowhere to hold terrorism suspects it had captured abroad. The military prison at Guantanamo did not open until January 2002. And it took the CIA until the spring of 2002 to get its own network of secret overseas prisons up and running.
Short on options, the CIA sought help from its counterparts in Jordan. Soon, CIA airplanes began carrying prisoners to Amman.
Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed, a Yemeni microbiology student, was captured in a U.S.-Pakistani operation in Karachi a few weeks after 9/11 on suspicion of helping to finance al-Qaeda operations. Witnesses reported seeing masked men take him aboard a Gulfstream V jet at the Karachi airport Oct. 24, 2001.
Records show that the plane was chartered by a CIA front company and that it flew directly to Amman. Mohammed has not been seen since. Amnesty International said it has asked the Jordanian government for information on his whereabouts but has not received an answer.
About the same time, Jamal Alawi Mari, another Yemeni citizen, was apprehended at his home in Karachi by Pakistani and U.S. agents. Records show that U.S. officials suspected him of working for Islamic charities that allegedly supported al-Qaeda.
Soon after, Mari was also flown by the CIA to Amman. "They never told me where I was going," he testified later before a U.S. military tribunal. "I found out later I was in Jordan."
Mari said he was imprisoned for four months in Jordan, out of sight of visiting Red Cross officials. In early 2002, he was taken to Guantanamo and remains imprisoned there.
Defense lawyers and human rights advocates in Amman said it wasn't a surprise that the CIA turned to Jordan's security agency for assistance.
"In America, people will ask about any breach of the law," said Younis Arab, a lawyer who has represented a CIA prisoner brought to Jordan. "Here in Jordan, nobody asks. So the Americans get the Jordanians to do the dirty work."
Other Jordanian lawyers cited unconfirmed reports that the CIA had transferred high-ranking al-Qaeda leaders to Jordan for interrogation. Although hard evidence is elusive, some former inmates have reported being detained in the same wing as Ramzi Binalshibh, a key planner in the Hamburg cell that carried out the Sept. 11 hijackings, said Abdulkareem al-Shureidah, an Amman lawyer.
"He was detained in Jordanian jails, definitely," Shureidah said of Binalshibh, who was kept in CIA custody in undisclosed locations from the time of his capture in Karachi in September 2002 until September 2006, when he was transferred to Guantanamo. "The U.S. brought all kinds of persons here from around the world."
Samieh Khreis, an Amman lawyer who has represented former Guantanamo inmates from Jordan, said testimony by former prisoners and others in Jordan reinforced a long-held suspicion that the CIA ran a satellite operation inside headquarters of the General Intelligence Department.
"Of course they had a jail here, a secret jail -- of course, no question," he said. "If they were to put me in that GID building over there, in my mind, it might as well be an American jail."
Khreis said the Jordanian spy service has a well-deserved reputation for using dubious tactics to force confessions. But he said the CIA sent prisoners to Amman primarily to take advantage of the GID's knowledge of Islamic radical groups.
"Torture is not the main reason," he said.
A Flat Denial
On June 26, 2006, just after 6 p.m., Nowak, the U.N. investigator, paid a surprise visit to GID headquarters in Amman.
The Jordanian government had previously agreed to give Nowak carte blanche to inspect any prison in the country, with no preconditions and unfettered access to inmates. As a new member of the U.N. Human Rights Council, Jordan was eager to win Nowak's seal of approval. GID officials permitted Nowak to tour its prison wing. But they refused to allow him to speak with prisoners in private. When Nowak asked about allegations that the CIA had used the building as a proxy jail, department officials said the reports were untrue.
"The response was just very flat, a simple denial, 'We don't know anything about that,' " Nowak recalled in an interview.
In interviews with former GID prisoners, Nowak said, he heard repeated, credible reports of inmates being subjected to electric shocks, sleep deprivation and various forms of beatings, including farruj and falaqa.
He said several inmates reported that their chief tormentor was Col. Ali Birjak, head of the GID's counterterrorism unit and one of the officials who had denied cooperating with the CIA. Based on those interviews, Nowak recommended in his report that Birjak be investigated by Jordanian authorities on torture charges.
In a written response to Nowak's findings on Oct. 10, 2006, the Jordanian government called the torture allegations "untrue" and noted that they were lodged by people with criminal records.
"It is common for prisoners to make false allegations about torture in a pathetic attempt to evade punishment and to influence the court," the government wrote.
In interviews with The Washington Post, however, former prisoners of the GID gave similar accounts of physical abuse.
Masaad Omer Behari, a Sudanese citizen, spent 86 days in the department's custody in early 2003 after he was arrested during a stopover at Amman's international airport.
Behari said his interrogators wanted to know about his activities in Vienna, where he had lived for more than a decade. He had been asked many of the same questions previously by the FBI and Austrian security officials about an alleged plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Vienna in 1998, he said, though he had denied any role and was never charged.
While he was in custody in Amman, Behari said, guards meted out a combination of falaqa and farruj. They struck the soles of his feet with batons while he was handcuffed and hanging upside down, then doused him with cold water and forced him to walk over a salt-strewn floor.
"I thought they were going to kill me," he said. "I said my prayers, thinking I was going to die."
Location:Kingdom of Jordan
Jail torture rampant in Jordan, report says
Human Rights Watch condemns the U.S. ally, saying prison officials there abuse without consequences.
October 09, 2008|Raed Rafei | Special to The Times
BEIRUT — For three days, he was severely beaten by prison guards. Then, early one morning in May, Firas Zaidan was found dead in his solitary-confinement cell in Jordan, one of the United States' staunchest allies in the Middle East.
An investigation was launched. But, as with numerous other cases, there are doubts about whether Jordanian authorities will hold prison officials accountable for the death and alleged torture, according to a lengthy report published Wednesday by Human Rights Watch.
U.S. officials often refer to human rights violations in condemning geopolitical rivals such as Russia, Iran and Syria. But the report says that prisoners in the small Arab monarchy, whose ruler, King Abdullah II, is strongly allied with the United States, are regularly subjected to torture and that their abusers are rarely punished.
In the 95-page report, "Torture and Impunity in Jordan's Prisons," the New York-based watchdog organization accuses the Jordanian government of failing to prevent extensive rights violations of inmates, often political dissidents or government opponents.
"Torture in Jordan's prison system is widespread even two years after King Abdullah called for reforms to stop it once and for all," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director for Human Rights Watch. "The mechanisms for preventing torture by holding torturers accountable are simply not working."
The report is based on interviews with 110 prisoners in seven of Jordan's 10 prisons. The organization said that 60% of the inmates indicated that they were victims of ill treatment, often amounting to torture. The group also said that Islamic activists accused or convicted of crimes involving national security faced greater abuse than other prisoners.
Sometimes, the report says, prisoners are tortured for minor rule breaking.
"Five days ago, guards beat me with the padlock on the door to our ward because I went to the toilet with the wrong clothes," said a prisoner identified in the report as Ghaith. "Then they took me to the gate, hung me by the wrists with two separate handcuffs, spreading my arms out between two window grills, and punched me in my stomach and chest."
According to the report, the most common forms of torture include beatings with cables and sticks and suspension by the wrists from metal grates for hours at a time. Although torture is not part of a general policy, the report indicates that prison directors and high-ranking guards "have ordered and participated in large-scale beatings."
Jordan is often described by Washington as one of its most valuable allies in the Arab world. U.S. economic assistance to the kingdom is up 48% this year from 2007, the American Embassy in Amman says. Last year, the U.S. provided Jordan with $255.3 million, mostly in military aid.
"Jordan is among our strongest partners and closest friends," David Hale, Washington's envoy to Amman, the Jordanian capital, said in January. "This increased level of assistance shows the bipartisan support in America for the difficult choices Jordan has made in its homegrown reform efforts."
Jordanian authorities have taken modest steps to reform the kingdom's prisons. Officials launched a program in 2006 to improve conditions and accountability. But the Human Rights Watch report says facilities continue to be beset by inadequate healthcare and unsanitary conditions.
It adds that, although torture became a crime for the first time last year, no guards have been prosecuted for abusing inmates.
"Jordan has made some attempts to address the problem of torture in prison, but the bottom line is that the measures have been insufficient, and torture persists as a consequence," Whitson says in the report.
Law enforcement officials are often asked to investigate and prosecute fellow officers accused of torture, creating the potential for conflicts of interest, the report says. Human Rights Watch recommended that abuse investigations be handled by civilian prosecutors.
"The police and prison service cannot credibly investigate itself," Whitson said. "Civilian prosecutors and judges should take over all investigations of prison abuse to end impunity for torturers and begin to provide redress for victims of torture."
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Times staff writer Borzou Daragahi contributed to this report.
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'المسكوت عنه' في خطاب المعارضة الأردنية: المخابرات العامة إلى أين ؟
'المسكوت عنه' في خطاب المعارضة الأردنية: المخابرات العامة إلى أين ؟!
27-6-2004
ويدرك كثير من المعارضين والسياسيين الأردنيين حجم التغير الذي أصاب المخابرات العامة وعقيدتها السياسية والأمنية، الأمر الذي أثّر بدروه كثيرا على الأخلاقيات العامة لعمل هذا الجهاز، فاستباح كثيرا من الأساليب المحرمة سابقا، وانعكس الوضع لتصبح المخابرات الأردنية نموذجا عالميا في استخدام "الأساليب القذرة" لنيل الاعترافات أو تنفيذ المهام الموكولة إليها بمهارة واحتراف.
بقلم فيصل فرحي
يفتقد الأردن إلى وجود معارضة سياسية وطنية ترتفع بسقف الخطاب السياسي من الحدود الدنيا التي يلتزم بها، إلى مستوى عال يتناول القضايا الجوهرية التي تعني المواطن وتصيب كرامة وسمعة الدولة في الصميم، خاصة مع سياسات الملك عبد الله الثاني المتهافتة في تنفيذ المشروع الأمريكي، بحيث تحولت السياسة الخارجية الأردنية لتصبح بشكل واضح أداة من أدوات الهيمنة الأمريكية في المنطقة. وإذا كان هناك شق معلن – في هذه السياسات - يدور الجدل الأكبر حوله، فإن هناك شقا سريا خطيرا للغاية، يتمثل في البعد الأخطر ألا وهو "البعد الأمني".
يحظى جهاز المخابرات العامة باحترام شديد لدى الشعب الأردني ، بل كان ينظر له كثيرون أنه السياج الذي حمى الوطن من أيدي الفصائل الفلسطينية العابثة في الستينات، والتيارات القومية واليسارية في الخمسينات، وكان هذا الجهاز -في العقود السابقة- بمثابة صمام أمان للأردن ، وكان يتجنب في كثير من الأوقات الانزلاق إلى الأساليب القذرة والبشعة التي كانت تمارس في العديد من الدول العربية، مع ملاحظة وجود تجاوزات كبيرة في عمله -بطبيعة الحال- مرتبطة بطبيعة عمل الأجهزة الأمنية .
ويبدو أن أحد المحددات الرئيسة التي فرضت على هذا الجهاز – سابقا - ضوابط أخلاقية تحول بينه وبين الانزلاق إلى مرحلة الفساد الكبير -الذي وقعت به الأجهزة الأمنية العربية في كثير من الدول الأخرى– هو طبيعة تكوين الجهاز الذي يغلب على أفراده أنهم من أبناء العشائر الشرق أردنية والمعروفين بروح التسامح والأخلاق والود، والبعد عن الأساليب الأمنية المحترفة في الفساد، وأيضا طبيعة الحكم في عهد الملك حسين، وخاصة فترة الحرب الباردة، إذ كان هناك "تسامح سياسي" كبير ومحاولة لتجنب الحلول الدموية في التعامل مع المعارضة .
ومن القصص المشهورة –على هذا الصعيد- قصة "ليث شبيلات" المعارض الأردني البارز، الذي ذهب الملك شخصيا لإخراجه من السجن وإرجاعه لوالدته مصطحبا إياه في سيارته الخاصة من السجن إلى المنزل، على الرغم أن هجوم شبيلات السياسي العلني قد وصل إلى التشكيك بتاريخ كل العائلة الحاكمة في الأردن ودورها التاريخي. وكذلك قصص العفو الملكي المعتادة بحق المحكومين في قضايا أمن الدولة، ويكفي القول: إن هناك مجموعة كبيرة من القضايا
-المنسوبة للإسلاميين– في محكمة أمن الدولة قد خرج أبناؤها بالعفو الملكي كقضية جيش محمد والنفير ومتفجرات عجلون وبيعة الإمام ..الخ .
لست هنا بصدد كيل المديح لنظام حكم أو جهاز أمني عربي، فكلنا يعلم الدور الخطير والفاسد الذي تقوم به الأجهزة الأمنية العربية، بما فيها المخابرات الأردنية، كما أنّ عمالة الملك حسين للمخابرات الأمريكية باتت من القضايا المعروفة والمستقرة، وقد تحدث عنها بوضوح محمد حسنين هيكل. ولكن الملاحظات السابقة كانت جوهرية لإدراك حجم التحولات التي أصابت جهاز المخابرات ودوره المفترض منذ بداية التسعينات وصولا إلى العهد الجديد مع فترة حكم الملك عبد الله، إذ تحولت المخابرات العامة لتصبح أداة من أهم أدوات المخابرات الأمريكية والإسرائيلية في المنطقة، وقد صرّح "أحمد عبيدات" ( رئيس مخابرات ورئيس وزراء سابق ) قبل سنوات –في محاضرة في مؤسسة شومان الثقافية الأردنية- أن الأردن بات مركزا رئيسا من مراكز الموساد الإسرائيلي في منطقة الشرق الأوسط .
لقد ظهرت مؤشرات عديدة على تحول كبير في دور جهاز المخابرات الأردنية وأهدافها منذ أحداث أيلول مع تعمق مأزق الكيانات القطرية العربية، في إطار إعلان الإدارة الأمريكية الحرب على الإرهاب، إذ أعاد الأردن تعريف دوره الإقليمي بشكل واضح ليكون أداة من أدوات السياسة الخارجية الأمريكية في المنطقة، وبالتحديد في الحرب على الإرهاب = الحرب على الحركات الإسلامية، فعززت هذه التحولات الكبيرة في السياسة الخارجية التغير الجوهري في طبيعة العقيدة الأمنية والسياسية لعمل المخابرات العامة؛ إذ تحول الهدف من حماية الوطن إلى تسويق الدولة كشريك مخلص وموثوق ومحترف في محاربة الإرهاب الإسلامي، وفي خدمة الأهداف الأمريكية في المنطقة.
ويدرك كثير من المعارضين والسياسيين الأردنيين حجم التغير الذي أصاب المخابرات العامة وعقيدتها السياسية والأمنية، الأمر الذي أثّر بدوره على الأخلاقيات العامة لعمل هذا الجهاز، فاستباح كثيرا من الأساليب المحرمة سابقا، وانعكس الوضع لتصبح المخابرات الأردنية نموذجا عالميا في استخدام "الأساليب القذرة" لنيل الاعترافات أو تنفيذ المهام الموكولة إليها أمريكيا بمهارة واحتراف.
ويشير عدد من المحللين إلى دور الشخصيات المهيمنة في الفترة الأخيرة على دائرة المخابرات في تحقيق هذا التحول، فبعد أن كانت هذه الشخصيات "شرق أردنية" في العقود السابقة أصبحت منذ سنوات من أصول تعود لأقليات عرقية أو اجتماعية؛ فـ"سميح البطيخي" (مدير المخابرات السابق) من أصول شامية وكذلك الأمر المدير الحالي سعد خير، وأحد أبرز الضباط المسئولين عن التعذيب وقسم مكافحة الإرهاب "علي برجاق" من أصل شركسي. بل هناك علامات استفهام كبيرة على حالة الفساد التي أصبحت تنخر في بنية الدائرة، وظهرت إحدى تجلياتها في فضيحة البطيخي وسرقاته، والتي ارتبطت أيضا بأبعاد إقليمية ودولية، الأمر الذي اذهل الأردنيين جميعا وهم يشهدون تدهور سمعة ومصداقية هذا الجهاز على مختلف المستويات.
التحولات السابقة في عمل دائرة المخابرات أكدتها تقارير إعلامية مبنية على تسريبات أمنية غربية، ولعل أبرزها وجود عدد من المعتقلات السرية الأمريكية في الأردن، والتي يتم فيها ممارسة جرائم
[ فظيعة ] ضد المعتقلين الإسلاميين، وبمشاركة ضباط ومسئولين من جهاز المخابرات الأردنية، بل وتسويق الأردن لدى الدوائر الأمريكية والإسرائيلية من خلال مفهوم الدولة الجاسوس على الدول العربية الأخرى، وعلى الحركات الإسلامية، ويكفي أن المسئولين العراقيين قد لمحوا كثيرا إلى دور الأردن الأمني في الحرب الأخيرة على العراق، ناهيك عن القضايا[ المفبركة ] ضد تنظيم القاعدة في الأردن والتهويل من خطر الإرهاب الإسلامي لنيل المزيد من المساعدات، ولتعزيز دور الجهاز وهيمنته على الساحة الداخلية.
ربما ليس جديدا الحديث عن عمالة العائلة الحاكمة في الأردن للولايات المتحدة، وإقامتها علاقات سرية مع إسرائيل منذ عقود طويلة ، ولكن الغريب والخطير في الموضوع العمل على تحويل دولة كاملة - معروفة بشعبها الأصيل - إلى عميل أمريكي وجاسوس على الدول العربية الأخرى. والأغرب من ذلك سكوت المعارضة الأردنية وبالتحديد الإسلامية عن هذه التحولات الخطيرة، وعدم وجود أي خطاب سياسي للمعارضة بهذا الخصوص، وكأن التحولات الأخيرة الخطيرة لا تعني المعارضة وليس لها علاقة بها، فلا تكاد تجد أي اهتمام حقيقي فاعل من قبل الحركة الإسلامية بالقضايا الوطنية.
إن الأردن – بحق – بحاجة إلى معارضة وطنية اليوم تقدم خطابا سياسيا جريئا وصادقا لا يتهرب من القضايا الرئيسة التي تعبر عن هموم البناء الاجتماعي وتنطلق منه، كما أنها تبتعد عن الشعارات الجوفاء والخطب المعلبة، إنما تعبئ الشعب للدفاع عن القضايا الخطيرة التي تحيط بالوطن وفي مقدمتها : الفساد السياسي، التحولات السياسية، الدور الإقليمي الخطير الجديد، الأزمة الاقتصادية، والتوازنات الاجتماعية، ودور المخابرات العامة الأردنية.
بلا شك إذا نهضت هذه المعارضة الوطنية للقيام بدورها ستجد سندا وعضدا لها في ثلة من أبناء الوطن الشرفاء من داخل مؤسسة الجيش والمخابرات العامة والمؤسسات الأمنية والوطنية الأخرى التي ما زالت تضم كثيرا من الشرفاء الأردنيين من أبناء العشائر الأصيلة الذين لم يصابوا بلوثة السياسة الانتهازية، ولا تسمح لهم أخلاقهم ببيع "القضية" في المزاد العلني!.
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