(DPA/Ha'aretz) - The Jordanian government has bowed to U.S. pressure and instructed commercial banks in the country "to refrain from dealing" with six Hamas leaders and five Palestinian societies suspected of extending aid to the fundamentalist organization, bankers in Amman said Monday. However, bank executives said they believed the blacklisted Hamas leaders "do not have any deposits at the Jordanian banks at present."
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