Jordan, Iraq pull ambassadors

Monday, March 21, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq and Jordan engaged in a tit-for-tat withdrawal of ambassadors Sunday in a growing dispute over Shiite Muslim claims that Jordan is failing to block terrorists from entering Iraq, while U.S. forces killed 24 insurgents in a clash south of Baghdad.

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