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Article: Inheriting the Storm.(King Abdullah II)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek International
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- May 28, 2001
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When he succeeded his father, King Hussein, to the throne two years ago, Jordan's King Abdullah II was hailed as a thoroughly modern monarch. Oxford-educated and a fan of the Internet, the energetic young king courted potential investors from Silicon Valley and paid incognito visits to state-run hospitals to investigate reports of corruption. But when hundreds of marchers gathered in Amman last week to commemorate Nakba Day--the anniversary of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion from Israel--the monarchy presented a different face. Jordanian security forces set upon demonstrators with dogs and truncheons and arrested journalists who tried to photograph the melee. "Why won't the ...
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