On President Bush being called to testify in front of a Jordanian court

The defending lawyer of two suspected Islamists accused of plotting to assassinate US President George W. Bush in Jordan last year asked both President George W.Bush and the American Ambassador to the Kingdom to testify in front of the court. Nidal Momani, Satam Zawahreh and Thrawat Mohamed from Zarqa were accused of having unauthorized weapons and plotting to assassinate the President in his last visit to the Kingdom few months ago.

President Bush who recently claimed executive privilege and refused to comply with a congress' subpoena is unlikely to come to Jordan to testify, still if you are a lawyer and want to make a name in the news these days then all of what you need is to act as idiot and associate your name with a president or a previous president. Now, this is not the first time that a Jordanian make an uproar in the news by suing or asking American presidents to stand in front of a Jordanian court. In the nineties, a funny Jordanian man whom name was "Baddy" wanted to sue President Clinton for naming his dog with a similar name. Buddy; Clintion's dog is spelled and pronounced a little bit differently but it was close enough for Mr. Baddy to attempt to sue the President. Baddy claimed that his life endured emotional damage and ridicule from the public because of his name association with Clinton's dog; Buddy. Associating with a dog is an insult in the Arabic culture. In that case and as I remembered, Baddy asked President Clinton to rename his dog differently and compensate him financially for his suffering. Unfortunately The story was resolved tragically and out of court when Buddy the dog was killed by a car accident. This current court case might end similarly but in a different way. This time the plotted assassins might be the ones who ended up dying. Let's wait and see. Obviously we are living in interesting times.