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...pretended to come to free Kuwait, but instead it is bombing the Iraqi people," says Mohammed Kamal, a Jordanian senator and former ambassador to Washington. Even in Saudi Arabia, many citizens, disturbed by the ferocity of the air strikes on Iraq and widespread expectations of a drawn-out conflict, harbor doubts about the wisdom...
Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz once boasted that "Israel is respected as an ally who is dependable, strong and who can win." In 1970, for instance, the U.S. asked Israel to mobilize troops to protect the Jordanian army from Syria. Israel readily compiled--even though it was officially at war with Jordan at the time. But the U.S. no longer needs Israel to "win" anything. When the Gulf War is over, America will rely on U.N. peacekeeping forces--not Israeli troops--to maintain stability in the Middle East...
...first back on the air the next day when the broadcasts -- this time censored -- were resumed. And when two CNN correspondents decided to depart Iraq (leaving a crew of three behind), CNN's new prestige was made clear. Not only did the Iraqi authorities ease their way to the Jordanian border, but Jordan's King Hussein himself called his border guards and ordered that the two men be passed through quickly and without difficulty...
JORDAN. King Hussein's worst fear is that Iraq and Israel will use his country as their battlefield. The most dangerous threat is that Israel will fly through Jordanian airspace to retaliate for Iraqi missile strikes. Hussein has vowed to repulse any intrusion, but that would draw him into a conflict in which he has nothing to gain. Even if Jordan manages to stay out of the actual fighting, there are other possibilities for its destabilization. Aggravated by the gulf conflict, tensions between the country's Palestinian majority and Bedouin minority, to which the King belongs, could spark an uprising...
...failure to deal with the Palestinian problem could likewise stir rebellion in Jordan. Even if Hussein weathers such storms, the Jordanian economy has been wrecked by the cutoff of trade with Iraq prescribed by U.N. sanctions; the specter of the 1989 riots prompted by government austerity measures still looms large...