Word: jordanian
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...coup for Jordanian intelligence operatives
...Reports earlier this week that a Jordanian-American arrested in Syria was connected with the bombing remain speculative. Although NBC reported an unnamed U.S. intelligence source as claiming that Raed Hijazi was a Bin Laden associate and had trained the Cole bombers, Jordanian officials and U.S. sources in Jordan could not confirm either claim. Hijazi was extradited from Syria to Jordan, where he was convicted in absentia for his role in a plot to attack American and Israeli targets in Jordan last New Year. That plot was foiled by Jordanian intelligence officials, and six of the 28 accused - including Hijazi...
...This is precisely what Annan proposes, suggesting, too, that countries put their peacekeeping units on permanent alert and allow them to train together outside of crisis moments, so that, for example, a Jordanian infantry battalion is deployed together with a British logistics unit with which it has previously trained and worked. But all of this will take investment, and the U.N. has a hard enough time getting member states to pony up for its existing commitments. Still, because Western countries are unlikely to raise their enthusiasm for committing combat troops, they may be more inclined to foot a higher bill...
...African solution" from nations not up to the job. The U.N. cobbled together a ragtag force from some ill-equipped and ill-trained Third World armies that finally trickled in in January. There was money for just 8,700 of the 11,100 troops authorized. Only one battalion of Jordanian soldiers and a 200-man rapid-reaction force from India arrived fully armed to fight. The U.N. had to order 4,000 helmets for troops who came without any and scrounge for simple necessities like barbed wire. When an officer from one country gave orders to a unit from another...