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...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...
...president of the Jordanian Senate is also a member of the Harvard Club of Jordan," Nye wrote in an e-mail message...
Abdullah received his education overseas, including stints at Oxford University and Massachusetts' Deerfield Academy, but also served extensively in the Jordanian army...
Abdullah did comment on the situation in Iraq. Although he said Jordanian-American relations are the "best they've ever been," Abdullah urged the United States government to ease sanctions against Iraq...