Word: aqaba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King Hussein has been providing the Iraqis with more than just moral support and an overland resupply route from the Jordanian port of Aqaba on the Red Sea. TIME has learned that he has also secretly sent antiaircraft weapons to Iraq to help against the Iranian air force...
...military equipment reaching Iraq arrives first at the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba. TIME'S Robert Slater last week took a helicopter tour of the area and saw dramatic evidence of that resupply in action: "Normally Aqaba is a sleepy port town, one that has always lagged far behind the nearby Israeli resort of Eilat in tourist traffic as well as commerce...
...Aqaba's harbor is bristling with vessels ready to off-load war supplies. They are lined up like runners crowded together waiting to begin a cross-country race." The Soviets are apparently providing Iraq with spare parts, food and ammunition diverted from South Yemen and Ethiopia. U.S. intelligence sources, however, were satisfied that so far there have been no Soviet shipments of lethal heavy weaponry ?tanks, missiles and the like?to Iraq...
...cause with offers of military aid, including some forces from its well-trained, U.S.-equipped 60,000-man army. King Hussein, who met in Baghdad last week with Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein, also organized truck convoys to carry Soviet and East bloc military supplies from the Jordanian port of Aqaba; its harbor was crowded with freighters waiting to unload. Western diplomats speculated that the Saudis, Jordanians and Iraqis had formed a new conservative Arab alliance that was aimed at checking the Iranian brand of revolutionary Islam in the area...
...being a noncombatant in a Middle East conflict. But Israeli officials expressed concern over the Syrian-Soviet treaty, lest it open the door for the stationing of Soviet troops in Syria. The new flirtation between Jordan and Iraq, not to mention the presence of Soviet supply ships in Aqaba harbor, was also worrisome to the Israelis. Warned Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "King Hussein has forgotten the lesson of the 1967 Six-Day War [when Jordan lost East Jerusalem and the West Bank by coming to Egypt's aid] and is jumping on the Iraqi bandwagon. I have the impression...