U.S., Jordan Forge Closer Ties in Covert War on Terrorism
By Ken Silverstein
Times Staff Writer
November 11, 2005

WASHINGTON — The suicide bombers who struck three Western hotels in Amman, Jordan, this week also were targeting the increasingly important U.S. partnership with that country.

Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate, or GID, has surpassed Israel's Mossad as America's most effective allied counter-terrorism agency in the Middle East. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, its cooperation with the CIA has grown even closer...http://tinyurl.com/dqgms
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