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Heir Jordan

With American help, King Hussein hopes
to replace Saddam Hussein as the leader
of Iraq.

HELEN DAVIS

Foreign Correspondent

K

ing Hussein of Jordan
has a secret plan that
calls for him to take
over the leadership of Iraq
after Saddam Hussein is
toppled.
The plan, which will re-
portedly be discussed with
senior Bush administration
officials when the Jordanian
monarch visits Washington
this week, envisages the
king heading a Jordanian-
Iraqi confederation while
the king's brother, Crown
Prince Hassan, is installed
as Jordanian monarch. King
Hussein himself, no relation
to the Iraqi leader, would
become the supreme au-
thority Of the confederation.
Iraq's immediate
neighbors — Syria, Saudi
Arabia and Iran — are
understood to oppose the
plan, but it has reportedly
been discussed, and broadly
approved, by key members of
Iraq's officer corps, by its
business community and by
Shi'ite opposition leaders in
southern Iraq.
British-educated King
Hussein, 57, is married to
glamorous, American-born
Lisa Halabi, and their lavish
lifestyle has led to Jordan to
be dubbed the "Gucci
kingdom," a trend that is
dangerously out of sync with
the radical tendency alive in
the Arab world.
A shrewd and pragmatic
leader who has kept his bal-
ance on an often-precarious
Hashemite throne for the
past 40 years, King Hussein
has always been regarded as
the most pro-Western Arab
leader. But sandwiched bet-
ween powerful neighbors, he
has been forced to tread
warily in order not to tempt
the rapacious appetites of
his predatory Syrian and
Iraqi neighbors.
He expelled the Palestine
Liberation Organization
from Jordan following a
bloody civil war in
September 1970 (up to
20,000 Palestinians are
believed to have been killed)
and was saved from invasion
by Syria only when Israel, at
Washington's request,
threatened to intervene
after Syrian tanks had actu-
ally crossed the border.
While officially still in a
state of war, Jordan and
Israel enjoy a de facto peace,

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King Hussein of Jordan

with a measure of coopera-
tion over water resources
and a significant flow of peo-
ple and goods across their
common border.
Israel is believed to have
foiled, or alerted King Hus-
sein, to at least three at-
tempts on his life, while Jor-
danian forces in return ac-
tively seek to prevent cross-
border incursions by Pales-
tinian radicals and Islamic
fundamentalists. Eleven
incursions succeeded last
year, but Jordan stopped an-
other 38.
King Hussein is also re-
ported to have secretly met
with most of Israel's leaders

The coming weeks
could be
Washington's last
chance to clip
Iraq's wings.

since coming to power and is
rumored to have made at
least one clandestine visit to
Tel Aviv.
His reputation as a
Western stalwart suffered a
severe blow when the corn-
bined forces of his passionate
Palestinian population and
domestic fundamentalist
elements pushed him into
supporting Saddam Hussein
during the Gulf crisis. Since
the war, however, he has
worked hard to crack down
on his domestic radicals and
mend his fences with the
West.
Some observers now
believe that the Jordanian
monarch is now seeking to
consolidate his power, secure
a financial base and restore

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