Word: jordanian
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...Baghdad is expanding its civilian chemical industry in ways that could be diverted quickly to chemical weapons production." Procedurally there is not much difference between making pesticides and making chemical weapons. According to former UNSCOM chief Richard Butler, Iraq takes advantage of the similarities and eludes sanctions by using Jordanian front companies to import lathes and machine tools, which, once inside Iraq, are easily adapted to the production of chemical weapons. The Iraqis consistently deny violating the sanctions or the cease-fire deal...
Whenever the Middle East suffers instability, people like Ismail Hodeib feel the pain. Twice war has forced the 48-year-old Jordanian on the run, from a home in the West Bank and then a job in the Persian Gulf. After Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, his prospects improved. Foreign tourists, including busloads of Israelis, flocked to his family's rustic restaurant north of Amman. Last week, as Hodeib surveyed tables once teeming with shish kebab and Oriental salads, a shrug came easier than a smile. "Things are worse, 100% worse," he says. "Life was getting...
...called East Bankers of Bedouin stock who form the backbone of Hashemite rule. Protests in support of Yasser Arafat led to attacks on cars and shops, making East Bankers worried they were losing control. Upset that Abdullah refused to break relations with Israel, Palestinians in refugee camps pelted Jordanian police with rocks and taunts of being "Jews" loyal to Israel...
...King may be more helpless when it comes to Iraq. Jordanian officials detest Saddam Hussein, but the King is opposed to any U.S. war against him. Ordinary Jordanians are sympathetic to Iraq and suspicious of U.S. designs in the region. Western diplomats worry that a U.S. war against Iraq could provoke political unrest undermining the pro-American Hashemites. Moreover, Jordan is dependent on Saddam's largesse for its economic survival, thanks to a deal by which Saddam sells the Kingdom all its oil at a 60% discount from world prices and takes payment in the form of imports that keep...
...also, in many instances, among the most strongly resistant to the idea that its security forces should be rounding up the Islamists and other radicals at the forefront of the intifada. Palestinian democracy is no more a guarantor of peace with Israel than Egyptian or Jordanian democracy would...