Word: yarmuk
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...That did not fool US forces. When authorities zeroed in on Numan early Thursday morning, they first surrounded the houses of Numan's brother and son-in-law in the posh Baghdad neighborhood of Yarmuk. Numan wasn't at either address, but family members eventually led US forces to the nearby house of Numan's sister, where the fugitive was hiding. Carrying insulin, a few clothes and packs of Kent cigarettes, Numan was led away with his brother and son-in-law, both of whom have since been released...
...towns in Jordan receive water only two times a week, and the country must double its supply within 20 years just to keep up with population growth. "We are cornered," admits Munther Haddadin, a Jordanian development official. With time running out, Jordan hopes to draw additional reserves from the Yarmuk river. Israel, however, will fight any plans for use of the river that do not give guarantees of access to the Yarmuk waters that the country currently uses...
Abbas' career, indeed, could serve as a handy capsule illustration of P.L.O. factionalism. He was born in Haifa in 1947, a year before that city became part of the newly created state of Israel. He was taken to Syria a decade later and grew up in the Yarmuk refugee camp near Damascus. Though one U.S. official last week characterized Abbas as "an uneducated thug," he studied English and Arabic literature at the University of Damascus...
...most ominous flare-up occurred in southeast Lebanon, when some 1,000 fedayeen crossed over the border from Syria. The troops belong to a fighting unit known as the Yarmuk Brigade, which has the backing of the Syrian government. But after brief skirmishes with Lebanese soldiers, the Palestinian invaders withdrew. Their sortie seemed to have been a largely symbolic demonstration of support for their embattled brothers in Beirut...
...dawn broke along a 35-mile stretch of the Jordan River and its tributary the Yarmuk last week, Israeli soldiers gaped in disbelief. In ones and twos or even in whole squads, scores of bedraggled Arabs broke from the concealment of reed beds on the Jordanian banks and splashed across the 30-yard-wide, green-flecked rivers with white undershirts tied to their rifles in a sign of surrender. Many also held up green I.D. cards certifying them as fedayeen, the Palestinian "men of sacrifice" who are sworn to destroy Israel...