Marwan Muasher
Marwan Muasher
Marwan al-Muasheris a Jordanian diplomat and politician who was Jordan's foreign minister from 2002 to 2004 and its deputy prime minister during 2004 and 2005. He currently serves as vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research on the Middle East. He was Jordan’s first ambassador to Israel and former ambassador to the United States...
expected fight happen
I never expected something like this to happen to Jordan, ... This is our Jordan, and I will fight this with my every means.
authority carry equipment putting searches thorough
Authorities are also putting more X-ray equipment to carry out thorough searches on vehicles,
deal madness reached
This madness has reached us, and we have to deal with it,
arab coming
This is the whole Arab world coming on board,
decision followed needs quick time
This is a decision that Tunis has taken, at the same time we feel that it needs to be followed with a quick summit,
against guard happened happy jordan measures terrorist whatever
This is something that Jordan is not used to, ... Obviously, we are not happy about what happened and we are going to take whatever measures we can to guard against these terrorist activities.
cause confront culture defend iraq matter occupation society
This culture that is mingling in our society has no justification. Our society will confront them and say, no, no matter what their cause is, be it the occupation of Iraq or Palestine. We will do everything to defend ourselves.
arafat
Isolating Arafat in this way is only making him more popular,
carried everybody forth jordan mothers people screaming
I carried at least 20 people back and forth to the Jordan Hospital. Everybody was screaming and crying; mothers were confused. ... I was just shocked,
among details operations took
All those who took part in these operations are non-Jordanians. I will not go into details now. But there are no Jordanians among them.
barbarians belong
These are outlaws, these are terrorists, barbarians who don't really belong to any identity, any nationality.