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Jordan says U.S. troops abusing drivers
By UPI
06/13/05 "UPI"
- - AMMAN, Jordan - - Jordanian local officials alleged that U.S. troops are abusing and humiliating Jordanian drivers, an independent Jordanian paper reported Monday.
Al-Ghad daily quoted Mohammad Abul Ghanam, deputy administrative officer in Ruweished which borders Iraq, as saying that 51 Jordanian drivers have filed official complaints in the past three weeks to the provincial administration that they were attacked and harassed by U.S. troops on the Iraqi side of border.
He said the harassment is still continuing against drivers carrying passengers between the neighboring countries.
The newspapaer quoted a U.S. Embassy spokesman in Amman as saying there was no evidence to show that such incidents had happened, but added the U.S. forces were launching a campaign to stop Jordanian drivers from smuggling cigarettes and gasoline from Iraq into Jordan.
Al-Ghad, owned by independent Jordanian investors, last week reported that U.S. troops forced four drivers to wipe human excrement in each other's faces, detained a dozen drivers in toilets for 12 hours and broke the windows of their cars.
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