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Finally, back in Amman from Boston, Hijazi gradually accumulated bomb-making materials, including sulfuric acid and 5,200 pounds of nitric acid, which were then stored in an enormous subbasement dug by the plotters over a period of two months underneath a rented house.

Zarqa-Azraq road, traveling north from Amman, veering east into the desert.

I told the driver to take us to Jebel Amman, where the Inter-Continental is located.

From the spaces and heights of Jebel Amman it was a long walk down to the crowds around the taxi ranks near the Roman theater.

I was in Amman, sitting in the Roman theater, and I had an odd sensation.

SAS Radisson Hotel in downtown Amman, the border crossings from Jordan into Israel, and two Christian holy sites, at a time when all these locations were likely to be thronged with American and other tourists.

On the twenty-fourth, at a meeting in Amman to commemorate the first anniversary of the ACC, Saddam gave a long speech in which he said that as a result of the decline of the USSR, the Arab world needed to band together to oppose American and Israeli machinations.

Large numbers of Iraqi front companies and businessmen operate out of Amman, and naturally, with them come large numbers of Mukhabbarat personnel.

Until some other country was willing to furnish Jordan with the cheap oil and major import market its economy required, the Security Council was not going to enforce the sanctions against Amman for fear of wreaking havoc in the Hashimite Kingdom.

Baghdad could cut all trade and oil exports to Jordan and direct its agents in Amman to try to assassinate King Abdallah or encourage his Palestinian population to overthrow him.

Keeping Israel and Jordan Out of the Fray If the United States were to embark on an invasion, Washington would need to keep both Jerusalem and Amman out of it.

Iraq, and its society is too heavily penetrated by Iraqi intelligence for Amman to be able to easily handle the risks of participating openly.

This may be the most persuasive argument of all in Amman, Riyadh, and the Gulf capitals.

United States were to embark on an invasion, Washington would need to keep both Jerusalem and Amman out of it.

No rumor was too extreme to find its way into the fanciful legends that foreign travelers heard repeated with awe in Amman, the desert capital of Jordan.