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Amman
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  • Zarqawi always said the road to Palestine runs through Amman.†   (source)
  • Gabriel was suddenly sorry he had come to Amman without gifts of his own.†   (source)
  • But unlike in Amman, the boys playing in Clarkston seemed to come from a confusion of backgrounds—they were white, black, and brown.†   (source)
  • Luma liked the school well enough, but winter there was colder than anything she had experienced in Amman, and the campus was remote.†   (source)
  • Eventually, her thoughts turned to Amman, her family, and especially her late grandmother, who had always told her as a child that things happened for a reason.†   (source)
  • "My sister and my dad don't like people going into them and knowing who they are," said Inam al-Mufleh, Luma's younger sister by eleven years and now a researcher for the Jordanian army in Amman.†   (source)
  • The al-Muflehs had gathered with their cousins, as they often did on weekends, at the family farm in a rural area called Mahes, half an hour from Amman.†   (source)
  • Nabil Awad boarded the plane without a struggle, and just six hours later was locked in a cell deep within GID headquarters in Amman.†   (source)
  • They sent Luma to the American Community School in Amman, a school for the children of American expatriates, mostly diplomats and businessmen, and elite Jordanians, including the children of King Hussein and Queen Noor.†   (source)
  • From behind her windshield she could see the boys playing the game with the sweaty mixture of passion, joy, and camaraderie she recognized from the games played in the empty lot on the other side of the fence from her grandmother's house in Amman.†   (source)
  • Ziad had sent it from an Internet cafe in Amman while waiting for a courier to take him across the border into Iraq.†   (source)
  • In 1999, she decided to move to Atlanta for no other reason than that she liked the weather—eternal-seeming springs and easy autumns, with mercifully short and mild winters—not unlike the weather in Amman.†   (source)
  • Soon after the outbreak of civil war in Syria, however, he met with an ISIS recruiter in Amman and inquired about making his way to the caliphate.†   (source)
  • DURING ONE OF HIS MANY visits tO GID headquarters in Amman, Gabriel had taken possession of several portable hard drives.†   (source)
  • She went to the best school in Amman and lived at a comfortable distance from the problems of that city, including poverty and the tensions brought on by the influx of Palestinian and later Iraqi refugees.†   (source)
  • For now, though, let's begin the story amid the nineteen hills of the ancient city of Amman, Jordan, where Luma Mufleh grew up and where she learned to love a game that would create so much joy and cause so much trouble years later in a little town in Georgia, half a world away.†   (source)
  • One was a Jordanian from Amman named Jalal Nasser, whom Nabil Awad met during a Hizb gathering in the East London borough of Tower Hamlets.†   (source)
  • "It sounds to me as if you and Fareed really hit it off," he said after Gabriel described his visit to Amman.†   (source)
  • At a meeting of some brothers in Amman.†   (source)
  • He was Jalal Nasser, born in Amman, Jordan, in 1984, currently residing in the United Kingdom, address unknown.†   (source)
  • Fareed snapped a photo of the photo with his mobile phone and forwarded it to the GID headquarters in Amman.†   (source)
  • Only later would Natalie learn that he had been in Paris and Amman preparing for her introduction into the field—operational spadework, he called it.†   (source)
  • His movements were unpredictable, Paris one day, Brussels or London the next, Amman when he needed to consult with Fareed Barakat, Jerusalem when he needed the touch of his wife and children.†   (source)
  • Then he crawled into the backseat of his SUV for a high-speed drive across the West Bank to Amman's Queen Alia Airport, where one of His Majesty's Gulfstreams was fueled and ready for takeoff.†   (source)
  • They were spread from the Bethnal Green section of East London, to an immigrant banlieue north of Paris, to a room in the heart of a building in Amman known as the Fingernail Factory, where a jihadist was being kept on cyber life support.†   (source)
  • In London, Tel Aviv, Amman, and Paris, highly trained and motivated professional intelligence officers stood motionless before computer screens, staring at a tangle of gorse at the base of a concrete power pole.†   (source)
  • Amman.†   (source)
  • GID HEADQUARTERS, AMMAN   (source)
  • The movement had its roots in the grim Amman suburb of Zarqa, where, in a two-story house overlooking a derelict cemetery, there had once lived a man named Ahmad Fadil Nazzal al-Khalayleh, a heavy drinker, a vandal, a vicious street brawler who had so many tattoos the neighborhood children referred to him as "the green man."†   (source)
  • She lives in Amman?†   (source)
  • AMMAN, JORDAN†   (source)
  • GID HEADQUARTERS, AMMAN   (source)
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