A city at the centre of a storm

SALT (Jordan): This city – with its numerous churches, its liquor stores and its past as a cosmopolitan trading hub – was an unusual one to suddenly develop a reputation as a centre of Islamic radicals travelling from Jordan to fight in Iraq. 

Jordanian officials say it is undeserved, the result of a series of misunderstandings. In fact, they say, the city is home to only a small handful of the Jordanians known to have joined the insurgency in Iraq.