Word: abdullah
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When King Hussein was a 15-year-old prince, a medal on his chest deflected a Palestinian radical's bullet and saved his life. In the same fusillade, Hussein's grandfather King Abdullah was shot dead at the prince's side while entering the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. That was a chilling lesson in the dangers of power, and the quirks of fate, for the young man who two years later would inherit the throne...
...tradition of nationalism. After the British wrested Palestine from the Ottoman Empire in World War I, they administered the region as a League of Nations mandate. The British put the territory east of the Jordan River, known as Transjordan, under the local rule of Hussein's grandfather Emir Abdullah. When Abdullah first pitched his tents in Amman in 1921, he took over an impoverished desert area more than four times the size of Massachusetts that was peopled mainly by nomadic Bedouin tribes...
...Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan left British control in 1946. The state of Israel was proclaimed two years later. In the Arab-Israeli war that followed, Abdullah's Transjordanian Arab Legion was the only one of seven armies to make a creditable showing against the Israelis...
...fighting went on, Saddam Hussein tried to get new pledges of support from the Arab gulf states, which remain highly apprehensive about Khomeini's Islamic revolutionary fervor. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz recently flew to Baghdad to offer generous assistance to Saddam Hussein. If a peace deal could be worked out, Abdullah claimed, Saudi Arabia was prepared to pay Iran for war reparations. Said Abdullah: "Any price in terms of money is worth it if we can get rid of this pestilence...
...Although Abdullah is a harsher critic of U.S. policy than Fahd, Washington officials are not concerned. The State Department said last week, "Abdullah has done nothing to make us uneasy about his relationship with the West. In any event, the Saudis rule by consensus, which is bigger than the government and certainly bigger than...