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Jordanians have long expected Hussein to crack down on the fedayeen, who stand in the way of any hope of a settlement with Israel. Two weeks ago, residents of Jordan's capital of Amman awakened to the sound of gunfire. Loyal Bedouin soldiers clapped a tight curfew on the city and rounded up members of Kataeb al Nasr ("phalanx of victory"), a shadowy group on the fringe of the fedayeen movement. Tensions ran high between the Bedouins and the dispossessed Palestinians who now make up a restless majority of Jordan's population. When Bedouins also attacked a training...
Rule or Burn. The move never came, but neither did Hussein's expected crack down. Instead, the king and the fedayeen leaders had a tense and angry showdown in a two-hour meeting in Amman's military headquarters. Hussein, wearing the uniform of Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, angrily opened the meeting: "If I don't rule this country, then I shall burn it." In reply, the fedayeen leaders pointedly reminded the king of their own strength...
They asked: "What was the population of Amman...
More and more, the commandos operate as a state within a state. They occupy the Jordan River's East Bank and defy government requests that camouflage-uniformed fedayeen stay off the streets of Amman. When a Bedouin army unit tried to disarm a group of commandos at a checkpoint outside the capital last week, Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat rolled up two jeeploads of commandos and threatened to shoot his way through. The army backed down...