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Article: Jordan's King Backs United States as Public Opposes War in Iraq.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- March 16, 2003
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By John Otis, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 16--AMMAN, Jordan -- During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Jordan's King Hussein earned the wrath of Washington for his strategic embrace of Saddam Hussein, a man he described as an "Arab patriot."
Now, as the United States prepares for a possible new assault on Baghdad, Jordan is discreetly siding with Washington.
Although Jordan maintains friendly relations with Iraq, the country's ruler -- Hussein's son, King Abdullah II -- has allowed American troops to set up camps in the remote eastern portion of the nation near western Iraq.
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