(Newsday) Matthew McAllester - Jordan will allow U.S. forces to operate covertly from its eastern desert to attack mobile missile batteries in western Iraq targeting Israel, according to Western diplomats and Jordanian officials. The U.S. will also guarantee the replacement of cheap oil supplies that Jordan now gets from Iraq, the sources said. Though hundreds of Iraqi agents are believed to be in Jordan, King Abdullah II has decided to work with Washington because he sees the U.S. as the eventual winner, officials said. For its part, "The U.S. will not make requests of Jordan that it knows Jordan [politically] cannot carry out," said a Western diplomat.
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