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	Jordan, country, Asia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The inhabitants of Jordan are mostly of Arab descent.
		The history section of this article is primarily concerned with the region E of the Jordan River; for the history of the area to the west, see Palestine.
		The region of present-day Jordan roughly corresponds to the biblical lands of Ammon, Bashan, Edom, and Moab.
	www.bartleby.com /65/jo/Jordan.html (2214 words)

	Jordan PLO Syria Black September 1970-1971
		In Jordan's internal politics, however, the main issue between 1967 and 1971 was the struggle between the government and the guerrilla organizations for political control of the country.
		In November members of the Black September terrorist group--who took their name from the civil war of September 1970--avenged the deaths of fellow fedayeen by assassinating Prime Minister Tal in Cairo.
		In March 1973, Jordanian courts convicted seventeen Black September fedayeen charged with plotting to kidnap the prime minister and other cabinet ministers and to hold them hostage in exchange for the release of a few hundred fedayeen captured during the civil war.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/bravo/blacksept1970.htm (1771 words)

	Black September in Jordan - Definition, explanation
		September 1970 is known as the Black September in the Arab history and sometimes is referred to as the "era of regrettable events".
		In July, Egypt and Jordan accepted the US-backed "Rogers Plan" that called for a cease fire in the War of Attrition between Israel and Egypt and for Israel's withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967, according to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242.
		On September 6, in the series of Dawson's Field hijackings, three planes were hijacked by PFLP: a SwissAir and a TWA in Zarqa and a BOAC in Cairo, on September 9, a British Airways plane at Amman, the passengers were held hostage.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/b/bl/black_september_in_jordan.php (1526 words)

	All You Need Is Love
		Black September was at the time among the most feared terrorist organizations in the world.
		Black September's mission, however, was not simply to exact retribution on Jordan but to catapult the Palestinians and their cause onto the world's agenda.
		Black September's first operation was the assassination, in November of 1971, of Jordan's Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal, who was gunned down as he entered the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo.
	www.theatlantic.com /issues/2001/12/hoffman.htm (1868 words)

	Black September in Jordan information - Search.com
		September 1970 is known as the Black September in Arab history and sometimes is referred to as the "era of regrettable events".
		On September 6, in the series of Dawson's Field hijackings, three planes were hijacked by PFLP: a SwissAir and a TWA in Zarqa and a BOAC in Cairo, on September 9, a British Airways plane at Amman, the passengers were held hostage.
		On September 18, Syria, through the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) branch (whose headquarters were located in Damascus and which was very close to the Syrian regime), tried to intervene on the behalf of the Palestinian guerrillas.
	www.search.com /reference/Black_September_in_Jordan (1879 words)

	Black - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The term fl is often used in the West to denote "race" for persons whose skin color actually ranges from light to dark shades of brown, and overlaps with some people that might be classified as "whites".
		Black propaganda is the use of known falsehoods, partial truths, or masquerades in propaganda to confuse an opponent.
		Black is the colour of the snooker ball which has a 7-point value, and also the eighth billiard ball.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Black (960 words)

	Black (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The term fl is often used in the West to denote "race" for persons whose skin color actually ranges from pale to dark shades of brown, and overlaps with some people that might be classified as "whites".
		Black Thursday is the day of the stock market crash in 1929 which is the start of the Great Depression.
		Black is often used in Western culture to refer to race.
	www.worldslastchance.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Black (1235 words)

	Black September in Jordan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		September 1970 is known as the Black September in Arab history and sometimes is referred to as the "era of regrettable events".
		On September 6, in the series of Dawson's Field hijackings, three planes were hijacked by PFLP: a SwissAir and a TWA in Zarqa and a BOAC in Cairo, on September 9, a British Airways plane at Amman, the passengers were held hostage.
		On September 18, Syria, through the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) branch, whose headquarters were located in Damascus and which was very close to the Syrian regime, tried to intervene on the behalf of the Palestinian guerrillas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_September_in_Jordan (1979 words)

	Black September - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Black September in Jordan, the conflict between Palestinian guerrilla organizations and King Hussein of Jordan that began in September 1970 and ended in July 1971 with the expulsion of the PLO to Lebanon.
		Black September (group), a Palestinian organization named after the conflict.
		Black September was the name given to a series of events in the storylines of Malibu Comics, after the company was bought out and its various books radically restructured.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_September (141 words)

	Jordan - MSN Encarta
		During 1961 and 1962 Jordan was relatively free of domestic political strife and antigovernment agitation by the country’s refugee population.
		Jordan supported Iraq in its war with Iran beginning in 1980, a policy that strained relations with the pro-Iranian government of Syria.
		Jordan’s apparent tilt toward Iraq during the Persian Gulf War strained relations with the United States, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab states.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552293_7/Jordan.html (1490 words)

	SONY PICTURES CLASSICS presents: One Day In September
		To Palestinians Black September was September 1970 when King Hussein of Jordan took up arms against the unruly Palestinian militias based in his country, killing over 4,000 and expelling the remainder.
		Black September had a reputation as an organisation where extreme secrecy and extreme violence went hand in hand.
		Abu Daoud, the Black September commander most closely involved with setting up the Munich operation, admitted to the filmmakers that Black September was merely the cover name adopted by members of Fatah when they wanted to carry out terrorist acts, but did not want the party's name besmirched.
	www.sonypictures.com /classics/oneday/html/blacksept (989 words)

	Palestine Liberation Organization - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The original PLO Charter was written during Jordan and Egypt's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, respectively, and stressed Israel's annihilation, as well as a right of return and self-determination for Palestinian Arabs.
		Although Egypt and Jordan favored the creation of a Palestinian state on land they considered to be occupied by Israel, they would not grant sovereignty to the Palestinian people in lands under Jordanian and Egyptian military occupation, amounting to 53% of the territory allocated to Arabs under the UN Partition Plan.
		The Palestinian groups were expelled from Jordan, and during the 1970s the PLO was effectively an umbrella group of eight organizations headquartered in Damascus and Beirut, all devoted to what they called armed resistance to either Zionism or Israeli occupation, using methods which included attacks on civilians and guerrilla warfare against Israel.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/PLO (4830 words)

	Black September, The PLO's attempt to take over Jordan in 1970
		On September 6, members of the Popular Front hijacked three planes: A Swissair plane and a TWA plane were hijacked to the airport in Zarqa, and an additional plane, belonging to Pan American, was hijacked to the Cairo airport.
		The American and Israeli support of Jordan in the face of the Syrian invasion of the north of the kingdom strengthened Jordanian recognition of the fact that the stability of the kingdom depended on the support of the West.
		For the Palestinian leadership, Black September was the month in which it proved that the military might of its members should not be underestimated, and that it had the ability to formulate the agenda of the Arab states and of Israel.
	www.eretzyisroel.org /~samuel/september.html (4144 words)

	The Effects of the Amman Bombings on U.S.-Jordanian Relations - Council on Foreign Relations
		“Jordan is a very important base for the development of local jihad,” says Reuven Paz, an Israeli expert on Islamic terrorism.
		Experts say another disturbing trend in Jordan, highlighted in the July Pew poll, is that Jordan is the only Muslim country where support for suicide bombs against innocent civilians in defense of Islam has risen, not dropped; a majority of Jordanians—some 57 percent—now say they support suicide bombing, as opposed to 42 percent in 2002.
		Besides the so-called Black September crackdown against Jordan-based Palestinian rebels in 1970 that left thousands dead, Jordan has remained relatively stable despite the escalating violence that encircled its borders.
	www.cfr.org /publication/9200/effects_of_the_amman_bombings_on_usjordanian_relations.html (1475 words)

	In Memory of June Jordan: Like June...
		Black folks were of course diverted by the arrest of an accused child sex offender and R&B singer, who appears in a widely-circulated bootlegged copy of child pornography that has probably been seen by more people than those who have read at least one June Jordan book—but I digress.
		June Jordan was committed to exposing herself—her passions, convictions, and fears—in her words, which she willfully gave to the world with the libretto I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, and books such as Civil Wars, Selected Essays 1963-1980 (1996), and most recently her memoir, Soldier: A Poet's Childhood (1999).
		Jordan was of course right, when she suggested that "some of us did not die." The essay was written weeks after the 9-11 attacks, as Jordan struggled with the implications of the attacks and American response to them.
	www.seeingblack.com /x071202/june_jordan.shtml (934 words)

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		The term fl is often used in the West to denote race for persons whose skin color ranges from light to dark shades of brown.
		Black is also used for anarchist symbolism, sometimes splitted in diagonal with other colors for further symbolism.
		Black is the color of the snooker ball which has a 7-point value, and also the eighth billiard ball.
	www.misspellingz.com /blackbooty.php (1782 words)

	AEI - Short Publications
		King Hussein, Jordan's Hashemite monarch, was laid to rest early this week as an astonishing number of foreign dignitaries paid their respects, demonstrating the high regard so many held for Hussein.
		The threat Jordan faced in Black September was part of a larger movement challenging other regional moderates and Israel: revolutionary upheaval and external aggression based on nationalist pan-Arab racial theories.
		Jordan represents a traditional and far humbler form of Arab politics than the violent, angry, and arrogant politics of its neighbors.
	www.aei.org /publications/filter.all,pubID.10010/pub_detail.asp (1057 words)

	Middle-East-Info.org - Jordan
		The Jordan River and the Death Sea are shown in the center of the country; in reality, the areas west of the Jordan River and the Death Sea never belonged to Jordan.
		King Hussein of Jordan, official website, Jan 7, 2006): "In 1950, a Jordanian parliament in which Palestinian Arabs from the West Bank were equally represented voted unanimously to unite the West Bank of the Jordan River with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in order to safeguard the remaining Arab territory of Palestine from Zionist expansion.
		Black September in Jordan 1970-1971 (OnWar): During a bitterly fought ten-day civil war, primarily between the PLA [Palestinian Liberation Army] and Jordan Arab Army, Syria sent about 200 tanks to aid the fedayeen.
	www.middle-east-info.org /league/jordan/jordan.htm (2108 words)

	Jordan Expels the PLO in 1970
		Jordan was seen as a waystation toward defeat of Israel and a united Palestinian Arab state encompassing Israel and Jordan.
		Within 10 months the PLO were driven out of Jordan completely, and re-established themselves in Lebanon, a choice that led to eventual disaster for Lebanon.
		Jordan's attack on the PLO led to an escalation of Syrian-Israeli tensions.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1967to1991_jordan_expel_plo.php (462 words)

	Black September in Jordan: Encyclopedia - Black September in Jordan
		In July, Egypt and Jordan accepted the US-backed "Rogers Plan" that called for a cease fire in the War of Attrition between Israel and Egypt and for Israel's negotiated withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967, according to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 242.
		The armored troops were inefficient in narrow city streets and thus the Jordanian army conducted house to house sweeps for Palestinian fighters and got immersed in heavy urban warfare with the inexperienced and undisciplined Palestinian fighters.
		On September 18, Syria, through the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) branch (whose headquarters were located in Damascus and which was very close to the Syrian regime), tried to intervene on the behalf of the Palestinian guerrillas.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Black_September_in_Jordan/id/1933752 (1974 words)

	Jordan, Transjordan - The Peace FAQ
		Jordan was created in the part of the British Mandate of Palestine east of the Jordan River, the majority of the Mandate.
		On August 23,1959, the Prime Minister of Jordan stated, "We are the Government of Palestine, the army of Palestine and the refugees of Palestine.
		"Jordan is not just another Arab state with regard to Palestine but, rather, Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan in terms of territory, national identity, sufferings, hopes and aspirations, both day and night.
	www.peacefaq.com /jordan.html (1642 words)

	Palestine Liberation Organization - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A significant minority within the PLO at this time still held the view that a future Palestinian state would include the territory of Jordan, an area that was part of Palestine administered by the United Kingdom from 1917 till 1922.
		There was a subsequent public ceremony in Washington D.C. on September 13, 1993 with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin.
		On 9 September, 1993, Arafat issued a press release stating that "the PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security".
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/PLO (2753 words)

	Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature. Edited by John O'Neill
		Black Gate's Leo Grin analyses the meteoric rise and tragic fall of one of the most influential fantasists of modern times.
		Black Gate Managing Editor Howard Andrew Jones checks in with Paizo publisher Erik Mona for all the details about his ambitious new fantasy imprint, Planet Stories, and the classic tales at the center of the endeavor.
		Black Gate 11 is now at the printers â” and it promises to be our best issue yet, as Martha Wells, James Enge, Iain Rowan, and Mark Sumner all return with big new installments building on the action in Black Gate 10.
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