Word: iraqis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sudden withdrawal immediately prompted an angry exchange of threats between Washington and Baghdad and frantic negotiations at U.N. headquarters in New York City to seek Iraqi compliance. By week's end the U.S., Britain and other allies were careering toward another showdown with Iraq. Shore leave in the Mediterranean for crew members of the aircraft carrier Saratoga was canceled, President Bush met with top defense advisers, and officials in several Western capitals huddled to phrase an ultimatum...
...transaction is perfectly blatant. A Jordanian customs official is bribed, illegal cargo is substituted for food and medicine, a false manifest is prepared, and the truck heads for the Iraqi border. At the Jordanian customs post, the truck, sealed with a lock and a bit of wire, is not examined, the customs inspector stamps the false manifest, and the driver heads for Baghdad. Boasts police major Ahmed Omari as he waves through a van of vegetable oil: "Not a single truck has carried smuggled goods into Iraq." But thanks to Iraqi payoffs lavished on Jordanian government officials, thousands of tons...
...with the CIA'S evidence of cross-border smuggling, however, Hussein has finally ordered officials to stop the trade. Truck traffic from Jordan to Iraq has since declined by a third. In Amman last week, Secretary of State James Baker acknowledged a "reduced leakage of goods across the Jordanian-Iraqi border...
Before King Hussein tightened oversight, U.S. intelligence analysts estimate, from 35 to 50 companies in Amman handled the business, many of them Iraqi fronts established after Saddam's invasion of Kuwait two years ago. Al- Bawadi Co., for example, an Amman importer of European goods, has been identified by Western intelligence as the creation of Saddam's half brother Ibrahim al-Tikriti, who directs Iraq's internal security. Arabco, which deals in military equipment, was also identified by Western intelligence as a firm run by Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel. With an estimated $30 billion stashed in foreign...
...taken come too late to prevent Saddam from rebuilding his country. Jordan's belated bow to U.S. pressure reflects the monarch's sensitivity to the threat of Western political and economic retaliation. But he also calculates that Saddam could outlast George Bush. As long as he retains power, the Iraqi dictator is a potential menace to regional stability -- nowhere more so than in Jordan. "Smuggling in this country is an industry," concedes Finance Minister Jardeneh. Many Jordanians have come to view it also as a necessary form of insurance to placate the bully next door...