Nadia Mohammad Hashem is a Jordanian journalist and politician who served as minister of state for women's affairs from May 2012 to October 2012.

One Jordanian journalist wrote a fiery article called "For God Sake, Abdullah", in which he called on King Abdullah to dissolve the corrupt Lower House.

Mr. Abu al-Ragheb, who will take 100 Jordanian journalists and politicians with him, would be the highest-ranking Arab official to arrive by air since the embargo went into effect.

A helicopter bringing an advance team and some Jordanian journalists from Amman landed at the presidential compound at 3 p.m.

Jordanian journalists said that local papers had been told by the Government to drop the story.

"He knew that he was running out of time," said a Jordanian journalist who had criticized the palace upheaval.

"The King is sensitive to the mass sentiment these guys tap into," a Jordanian journalist said, suggesting a reason to move gingerly in regard to Hamas.

At the same time, according to those Jordanian journalists who report regularly on jihadis in newspapers like Al Ghad, the prisoners exerted an attraction on the less pious.

Fouad Hussein is a Jordanian journalist and author of the 2005 Arabic language book Al-Zarqawi: The Second Generation of Al Qaeda.

"It was like a Hollywood movie," said a Jordanian journalist who covers this usually sleepy capital.