RUSSEIFA, Jordan (AP) – Jordanians reacted defiantly Saturday to threats by the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq to attack more targets in their country and to kill their king.

An audiotape purportedly from the Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi warned Friday of further attacks against hotels, tourist sites and military bases in Jordan and threatened to kill King Abdullah II.

“He wouldn’t dare,” said Badour Ashour, a veiled 23-year-old in an Amman square, complaining that the terror leader had ruined the reputation of Islam. “Jordan will remain united like one hand and our determination is one.”

6.2 quake strikes off Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) – An earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.2 struck off the coast of Sumatra on Saturday, triggering a tsunami alert and prompting some residents to flee their homes, officials said.

There were no immediate reports of a tsunami, damages or casualties.

The quake’s epicenter was off Simeulue island, about 160 miles southwest of Medan, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck just after 9 p.m. local time.

Teen escapes jail for fifth time

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) – A 16-year-old boy accused of killing a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent has escaped from a juvenile prison for the fifth time in three years – just as he promised, an official said Saturday.

Herlan Colindres, a street gang member implicated in 16 other killings, slipped out of the crumbling juvenile rehabilitation center in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa on Friday, said Napoleon Nazar, national police director of criminal investigations.

Colindres and his 13-year-old bodyguard were arrested in July in the killing of Michael Timothy Markey, a DEA agent who was shot to death July 29 while visiting a temple dedicated to Honduras’ patron saint outside of Tegucigalpa.

It was Colindres’ second escape in less than four months – and the fifth in three years – from the same prison, where bricks can easily be chipped from the walls.

On Aug. 7, he weakened the metal bars of his cell with a nail file and fled – five days after boasting to reporters, “I will escape to kill all of the journalists.” He was captured the same day while hitchhiking. After that, the government built him a brick-walled cell with a private bathroom, watched by six guards. It was unclear how he broke out of that cell.

On Aug. 2, he told reporters, “I don’t care if I die outside, but I have to get out of here.”

Egyptian election alarms some

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – A surprise showing in the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections has given the Muslim Brotherhood its strongest political foothold ever heading into today’s vote, hinting at what democracy might look like in the Arab world’s largest country.

Secularists and Christians were unsettled by the Brotherhood’s initial showing, with the country’s oldest Islamic fundamentalist group taking 34 seats, doubling its presence in parliament.

The victories have established the Brotherhood as the leader of the opposition and have proven what the government feared: that the banned group is popular among Egyptians despite, or because of, frequent crackdowns and the government’s media campaign against it.

Jordanians have rallied angrily against al-Qaida in Iraq and al-Zarqawi following the Nov. 9 triple hotel attacks that killed 62 people, including the three bomber