Conflict Blotter

 I’ll bet you didn’t know toy transformer robots were banned on flights out of Amman’s Queen Alia Airport. For that and more, here is the definitive list of banned items on signs outside the gates at the Amman airport:

Ammunition
Automatic Weapons
Axes
Baseball Bats
Bb Guns
Billy Clubs
Blackjacks
Blasting Caps
Bows and Arrows
Box Cutters
Brass knuckles
Bull whips
Cattle prods
Compressed Air Guns
Corkscrews
Cricket Bats
Crow Bars
Disabling Chemicals […]

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I’m in Amman on something of a fishing expedition for information connected to last Saturday’s London/Glasgow bungled terror attacks. There are still way more questions than answers and everyone is racing to try to piece together what happened, who was involved, how they were connected, etc.
The big unanswered question is where the center of gravity […]

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