Word: jordanians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Athens airport, where the TWA flight originated, for security breaches. The names of all the passengers who flew the Athens-to-New York City leg, as well as those who boarded the plane in New York, were traced through computerized data banks for links with terrorist groups. The Israeli, Jordanian and Egyptian intelligence services were asked to run checks as well. The CIA was casting its net as widely as possible, considering suspects ranging from Colombian drug traffickers to disgruntled airline employees...
...chief outcome of the conference is that under our institute we will be pursuing work on how to promote Israeli-Palestinian-Egyptian-Jordanian trade without sacrificing Israeli security," Hausman said. "In other words how to disentangle tomatoes and bombs as tomatoes cross borders...
...success of Ben-Shachar's training partner was not the only interesting element of their alliance. The world champion was a Pakistani Muslim, Ben-Shachar an Israeli Jew. "We had many interesting discussions about this," Ben-Shachar remembers. Through tournaments, he also met and befriended the Jordanian squash champion. "And then wasn't now," he points out. "Now there is peace, but then it was a little more difficult...
...Jordan, he hoped to take command of Iraq's exiled opposition, which might have placed him in line to succeed Saddam eventually. Soon, however, it became clear that this was not to be. Foreign officials who met him were unimpressed by his character: "Completely inflexible," said a senior Jordanian security official, "and sick in his mind to the extent that he believes only he can be the savior of Iraq and anyone else who attempts to save Iraq is a traitor." As for those in the Iraqi opposition, they dismissed him as a bloody agent of the repression they...
...their sense of isolation grew worse, Saddam's daughters set up a campaign of their own. "They kept crying and pressuring their husbands," says the Jordanian security official. Receiving assurances from their mother in Baghdad, the women entreated their husbands to appeal for forgiveness. The wives swore on the Koran, "If you are killed, we will commit suicide." As the demands continued, Hussein Kamel became irritable and even violent. He fought constantly with other members of the defection party and last month was reportedly hospitalized for exhaustion...