WAR IN BRIEF : JORDAN : Food Trucks Bound for Saudis Stoned
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Riot police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of angry Jordanians, many of them schoolchildren, who stoned food trucks bound for Saudi Arabia. About 500 police, backed by 27 armored personnel carriers, two tanks and 15 jeeps mounted with machine guns, staged a massive show of force at Ramtha, near the Syrian border, after a Wednesday riot in which about 1,000 Jordanians attacked a convoy of 63 Syrian and Turkish trucks carrying food to Saudi Arabia, police said.
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