Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Satchel of Scorpions. Ever since Britain gave up Jordan last year, Hussein's neighbors have crowded close in the name of Arab "unity"-to help themselves. At the time of last fall's invasion of Egypt, Syrian, Iraqi and Saudi Arabian troops moved into Jordan to "protect" it; the Syrians and Saudis are still there...
Feisal reassured him that Iraqi troops would be at his disposal. That meant that if the Syrians threatened to use their 4,000 troops and 30 Czech tanks in Jordan against the King, he could stop them by threatening to call in the Iraqis. But Israel, which wants no powerful Arab neighbor at its back door, has often warned that its army will enter Jordan whenever Iraqi soldiers do. On his return to Amman. Hussein summoned U.S. Ambassador Mallory to his hilltop palace. The King wanted the U.S. to exert all its influence to keep the Israelis out. Hussein also...
...Jordan against possible Israeli attacks. At Mafrak, 3.000 Syrians are encamped, dedicated to the proposition that Jordan is rightly part of Greater Syria. Farther south, 5,500 Saudi troops occupy two points near Jericho, as well as the Aqaba area long claimed by Saudi Arabian kings as their own. Iraqi troops are massed along the eastern desert border. And Israel, with the most effective army of all, watches anxiously from the west...
...Change." "In Iraq today," said a senior Iraqi official, "there is only one source of wealth: oil. We propose to use our oil income while we have it to create other sources of wealth. We aim to change everything. But we propose to do it by evolution, not revolution. Nasser's way is not our way." As the only Arab member of the Baghdad Pact, Iraq...
...When the Syrians blew up the Iraqi pipelines to the Mediterranean during the attack on Suez, the program suffered a $700,000-a-day loss of revenue...