Word: jordanian
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...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...
...Confronted 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...
...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 banks, Saddam has plenty of funds to bribe Jordanian officials and purchase goods abroad, including luxury items to buy the continued loyalty of military and security officers in Baghdad. His agents forge export licenses, issue phony letters of credit for the front companies, and pay shipment costs to Aqaba's free port. There cargoes supposedly destined for Jordanian companies...
...Kassar's hesitancy was understandable. He wouldn't want anything to disrupt his profitable CIA-assisted drug and arms business. Presumably he was also worried because West German police had just raided the Popular Front hideouts around Dusseldorf and Frankfurt. Among those arrested: the Jordanian technical wizard and bombmaker Marwan Khreesat...
...Citizens," Levy said of the Egyptian and Israeli populations in 1979, "gradually got the true sense that talks were going on. Egypt, like the other Arab states, does not allow freedom of the press. Seeing the motorcade pass through your village may be the only way a Syrian, Jordanian, or Lebanese knows that peace might exist with the Jewish neighbor...