Word: glubb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...premier, Tewfik Pasha, quickly squashed the plot. The British quietly decided that Talal ought to take over from Naif. In betting on Talal, London took a calculated risk. Talal has been violently anti-British. In one of his fits of temper, he reportedly slapped the respected face of Glubb Pasha, British head of the Legion. Said he once: "If I am insane, it is with a hatred of the British...
Britain, whose subsidies support Jordan's tough little Arab Legion, made a show of force by going through with the executions. But the tough Briton who runs the Legion was nervous. Glubb Pasha's house was surrounded by half a platoon of armed legionnaires; barbed wire masked the entrance to his office; squads with Tommy guns convoyed his car. For still at large were the masterminds: Abdullah el Tel, former Arab Legion colonel (sentenced to death in absentia for the Abdullah killing), and Jerusalem's Mufti, the greatest plotter of them...
...talk went on, the Mufti's men passed out word that there would be a six weeks' moratorium on killings. After that, if the Mufti & Co. did not get their way, violence would start up again. Likely first target: John Bagot Glubb, the Briton who heads the Arab Legion...
...dead King's boots were tied heels to the front in the stirrups of his pure white Arabian horse and the procession began to move, paced by the dull boom of a single cannon, fired every minute. Glubb Pasha, British chief of the Arab Legion, wept openly, wiped his eyes with his red-and-white checkered legionnaire's headdress...