Riots in Jordan

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AMMAN, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Rioting in Jordan after the government raised fuel prices left one protester dead, the first fatality of violence sweeping impoverished towns in the kingdom, and Islamists called for more protests on Friday.

Hundreds took to the streets this week after the government decided to raise gasoline, cooking gas and heating fuel prices. They blocked roads, set government buildings alight and trashed shops in the towns of Maan, Tafila, Salt and Karak.

The protester was killed and scores were injured during an attack on a police station overnight in Jordan's second-largest city of Irbid, witnesses said. Police said they used tear gas to disperse masked youths who attacked government property.

Some protesters torched part of Irbid's municipal headquarters later on Thursday to vent their anger at officials who said the dead young man had been armed, the witnesses said.

"The country has risen up from north to south and this state of popular tension is unprecedented," said Murad Adailah, a senior member of the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Front called for more protests after Friday prayers in the centre of the capital Amman and in mosques across the country.
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I've got a friend in the Peace Corps that is in a small village in Jordan right now. I'm sure she'll be fine, but I'm a worrier.
 
Bu bu but - King Abdullah was on Star Trek!

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Jordan also has the only Star Trek theme park in the world thanks to him. Too bad he's the only Trekkie there.
 
This doesn't sound so good...

Jordan to use 'Iron Fist' against fuel rioters.
Jordan will “strike with an iron fist” rioters who use illegal means to express their anger over recent fuel-subsidy cuts, according to General Hussein Majali, director of the Public Security Department.

At least 17 civilians and 54 policemen have been injured, seven of them critically, in riots that followed the government’s Nov. 13 decision to cut subsidies on cooking gas and vehicle fuels. A Jordanian protester was killed as he joined an armed mob storming a police station in the northern city of Irbid, state-run Petra news agency reported earlier.

Majali said 158 protesters have been arrested nationwide, including two Syrians. Three banks in the northwest province of Balqa were robbed and burned, with 75,000 dinars ($106,000) stolen from one of them, he said.
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Is Lebenon the only Arab country remaining that did not see an uprising? Maybe it's got to do with quasi-democratic process they got, but not entirely sure. I think Morocco also was pretty stable.
 
RustyNails said:
Is Lebenon the only Arab country remaining that did not see an uprising? Maybe it's got to do with quasi-democratic process they got, but not entirely sure. I think Morocco also was pretty stable.
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Meh, Lebanon's been unstable for so long that they've devised ways to deal with it. The historically discriminated against minority in the country wrested power for itself and there's this weird precarious balance.

Edit: Seriously guys, the Jordanian regime has Western looking rulers that speak English well. This does not mean they're nice people.
 
RustyNails said:
Is Lebenon the only Arab country remaining that did not see an uprising? Maybe it's got to do with quasi-democratic process they got, but not entirely sure. I think Morocco also was pretty stable.
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Leave Lebanon out of it, they have seen enough pain to last them forever.
 
Smellycat said:
Everything is already expensive over there, and they are making the prices higher??? fuck off
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A lot of staples are subsidized in various countries. But as the underlying prices of those things go up, the governments can't afford to keep them at low prices.

And they really shouldn't be subsidizing things but once you start, it is difficult to remove the subsidies w/o having riots.


Egypt is the place where this could really get out of control. And Yemen. The whole area is a tinderbox. It was price hikes like this that were really some of the sparks that caused the Arab spring. But throwing out the governments does not solve the fundamental problem. They need to get rid of the subsidies and stop reproducing so fast.
 
Azih said:
Meh, Lebanon's been unstable for so long that they've devised ways to deal with it. The historically discriminated against minority in the country wrested power for itself and there's this weird precarious balance.

Edit: Seriously guys, the Jordanian regime has Western looking rulers that speak English well. This does not mean they're nice people.
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They aren't nice, but, they aren't cruel. They didn't butchered the local populace during the arab uprisings.
 
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