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Reference FCO 17/1704
Department/Office Foreign Office
Title Diplomatic representation of Jordan in UK: attempted assassination of Zaid al-Rifai, ambassador in London, 15 December 1971; attempts to extradite Khelfa Sahel, suspected attacker from France; possible sale of Sterling sub-machine arms to Libya (folder 1)
Date 1972
Collection Foreign Office Files for the Middle East, 1971-1974
Region Middle East
Countries Jordan; United Kingdom
Places Abu Dhabi; Aden; Algeria; Algiers; Amman; Bahrain; Benghazi; Cairo; Doha; Dubai; France; Israel; Jerusalem; Jordan; Kuwait; Libya; London; Muscat; New York; Palestine; Paris; Port Said; Sana'a; Syria; Tel Aviv; Tripoli; United Kingdom; United States
People al-Rifai, Zaid; Begin, Menachem; Burroughs, Ronald; Carter, Jimmy; Douglas-Home, Alec; Gaddafi, Muammar; Given, Edward; Luce, William; Morris, Willie; Parsons, Anthony Derrick; Phillips, John; Tripp, Peter; Wright, Patrick
Topics aid; aircraft; Arabs; arms; arms sale; assassination; BBC; Black September; coup d'etat; defence; embargo; export; extradition; Fedayeen; guns; import; licence; Ministry of Defence; Palestinian; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP); protest; RAF; refugees; Royal family; SAS; The Six; treaty; trial; visa; weapons
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