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...reaction on the streets of the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan is defiant. "Maybe he lost the battle, but that doesn't mean he lost the war," said Faisal al Afghani, whose Amman souvenir shop sells miniature Scud missiles. "We haven't had a leader like Saddam since Saladin." Unable to digest Iraq's defeat, many sought refuge in elaborate rationalizations. "The surrender of Iraqi troops," declared Stawri Khayat, a 30-year-old linguist from Jerusalem, "was staged by the Zionist-controlled media...
...stance on the war and have not fallen sway to Saddam's attempts to turn the conflict into a battle of Arab vs. West. Ordinary Egyptians show no inclination to mob the streets in support of Iraq as hundreds of thousands of other Arabs have done in cities from Amman to Nouakchott. When a small band of demonstrators assembled in Cairo two weeks ago for a march on the presidential palace, bystanders watched approvingly as police broke up the protest with nightsticks. Observed Jordan's Ambassador Nabih Nimr: "Apparently the majority of Egyptians are either quiet or support Mubarak...
...Arab demonstrators gathered in Amman, Jordan, to protest the alleged civilian deaths, waving black flags of mourning and shouting "Death to America...
...some American politicians as a military adaptation of Muhammad Ali's "rope-a- dope" ring strategy: bob, weave, dance and duck until the opponent tires himself out chasing an elusive target; then hit hard. Saddam, in fact, has supposedly used very nearly those words. Says an Arab diplomat in Amman: "Before the war, he was telling everyone, 'We know that the first strike will be for the benefit of the U.S. But we are prepared for them to hit us for two or three weeks. After that, it is our turn.' Saddam's effort will be on the land...
...vice president. "We became the biggest nuisances the Iraqi government ever saw until the arrival of the U.S. Air Force." By U.S. standards, the exclusive access was a bargain. It cost CNN just $16,000 a month to maintain the wire out of Baghdad and the satellite relay from Amman, Jordan, to the network's headquarters in Atlanta...