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| Subject: Jordan: Cover blown but king of spooks keeps quiet on the Western front Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:26 pm | |
| KING ABDULLAH of Jordan looked suitably solemn at the funeral for Captain Sharif Ali bin Zeid, the intelligence officer killed in Afghanistan by his own agent-turned-suicide bomber.
But signs suggest the king has been badly discomfited by the unprecedented public exposure of his nation's work with the CIA.
It is no secret that Jordan is the most pro-Western country in the Arab world. Squeezed between Iraq in the east and Israel in the west, it has always been pragmatic about both while remaining a close US ally.
Its General Intelligence Department, known as the Mukhabarat, is admired by professionals and sometimes compared to Israel's Mossad secret service, although its reputation for ruthlessness has brought harsh criticism from human rights groups.
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