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Article: King Hussein's Jordan: forty years on.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
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On 14 July 1958, the Iraqi royal family was brutally murdered in a revolution which overthrew the Iraqi monarchy and threatened the Jordanian throne as well. While the mob dragged the dismembered corpses of the slain royals through the streets of Baghdad, Britain despatched a parachute brigade to protect King Hussein of Jordan. Anthony Nutting, in Amman as a correspondent for a New York newspaper, reflected the view prevalent among Western journalists and diplomats: |However much one may admire the courage of this lonely young king, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion his days are numbered'.
Yet today, forty years after Hussein's accession to the Hashemite ...