A lawsuit telling of the whole story behind Petra Bank (Chalabi vs. Jordan)

Its a right that Jordanians, and all Arabs for that matter, still lack: Transparency and Freedom of Information. Someone can argue that Journalists also lack professionalism and curiosity, since there are laws in Jordan allowing for requests of information that many journalists don't know about. But, when Journalists are still afraid of asking questions, still adhere to decades old bureaucracy, still speak in the name of the government, and never employ true investigative journalism, Jordanians would never learn what goes on behind the curtains.

This is the lawsuit filed by Ahmad Chalabi in Oct of 2008 against the Jordanian government in regard to Petra Bank that sheds the light on his side of the story of what went wrong and why he fled the country. I am not defending anybody here. I could care less about Chalabi. But information should be free to those who want it. People would have better formulated opinions if they knew all sides to any conflict.

The bank's headquarters remained empty for many years in the 1990's. Its the big building in Wadi Saqra, next to hayat Amman. Now its Amman Cairo Bank.