Jordan Unready to Send Iraq Peacekeepers

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They must have got the memo?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030911/ap_on_re_mi_ea/jordan_us&cid=540&ncid=1480

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan is treating Iraq's war wounded and providing other humanitarian help, but its support doesn't extend to sending peacekeepers across the border, King Abdullah II told The Associated Press Thursday as he prepared to visit the United States.

The United States has been pushing for more troops from other countries to help it restore order in Iraq. Among other considerations, U.S. commanders believe it would help to have more troops from Muslim countries.

Abdullah said deploying Jordanian peacekeeping troops or Arab forces to Iraq "is a sensitive issue at this point."

Jordanians and other Arabs have shown fierce opposition to the U.S. occupation of Iraq and any hint their governments might support it militarily. In addition, messages attributed to Muslim extremist groups have warned other countries not to get involved in helping the United States police Iraq.

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1. Peacekeepers?

I wish the media would stop referring to armed forces occupying another country as " Peacekeepers". To refer to any troops currently in Iraq as peacekeepers is as ludicrous as calling the Nazi troops in France during World War 2 "Peacekeepers". This is yet another example of blatant distortion of truth. The only way troops from Jordan could correctly be referred to as peacekeepers would be if they stood between the Iraqis and US and UK forces and threatened to shoot either of them in a potential combat situation. Somehow I can't see that happening!