Word: jordanians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...citizen." Even though Al-Majid's defection last August to Jordan was considered a blow to Saddam's regime, al-Majid was ignored by Western governments and the Iraqi dissidents he had hoped to lead. He lived in isolation in a palace outside Amman as a guest of the Jordanian monarchy. He said he left Iraq disgusted with the regime's "savagery" and "oppression", but returned because he became "bad tempered" and "homesick." "Al-Majid probably will not be welcomed back as warmly as he hopes," says TIME's Dean Fischer "But Saddam is unpredictable, and it's likely that...
...security. When I arrived at the Iraqi border crossing, they never even asked me for my passport. We arrived in Amman at 3:30 in the morning of Aug. 8. I don't know Amman very well because on previous trips all our arrangements were taken care of by Jordanian protocol. It was rather difficult to reach a hotel. We found a taxi, and I asked somebody from our security detail to get into the taxi and take us to a hotel...
...bounced over an unfenced sector of Jordan's border escorting Mercedes-borne worthies who turned out to be the presidential kinsmen. Exhausted and parched, the travelers had made a 14-hour desert trek to evade detection. Water was their first request. "They drank tens of bottles," related a high Jordanian security official. Though the inadequately provisioned party had seemingly departed on the run, the journey was not quite spontaneous. The Jordanian official said Hussein Kamel had visited Amman 10 days earlier to warn of his coming. According to another security officer, U.S. agents met with him at that time, although...
...case, Hussein Kamel apparently did not leave Iraq empty-handed. The first Jordanian official reports that the general, before the flight with his brother, their wives, assorted Saddam grandchildren and 15 army officers, had brought out $50 million. How did he clear the Iraqi checkpoint? An Arab ambassador based in Baghdad replied wryly, "If you're Hussein al-Majid and you're driving to Jordan, you can bring out not only $50 million but $5 billion and no one will search you." Baghdad later accused the "traitor dwarf" of stealing public funds...
...refused to negotiate with Israel), resulting in armistice agreements that reflected the situation at the end of the fighting. Accordingly, the coastal plain, Galilee and the entire Negev came within Israel's sovereignty. The Gaza Strip came under Egyptian administration, and the West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem came under Jordanian rule. These were subsequently annexed to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which never thought it necessary to establish an independent Palestinian state in the newly acquired territories...