by Avi Shlaim
18 December 2002
General Muhammad Rasoul al-Keilani
20 December 2002
Director of General Intelligence
Dr Musa al-Keilani
20 December 2002
Journalist
Awn Khasawneh
22 December 2002
Chief of the Royal Court
Abdul Ilah al-Khatib
13 March 2002
Foreign Minister
Ahmad al-Lozi
15 December 2002
Prime Minister
Dr Abdul Salam Majali
18 September 2001
Prime Minister
19 September 2001
General Hussein Majali
21 December 2002
Chief Security Officer to Hussein
Taher al-Masri
21 September 2001
Prime Minister
6 March 2002
10 March 2002
11 March 2002
14 September 2002
Marwan Muasher
13 March 2002
Foreign Minister
Rajai Muasher
21 December 2002
Minister of Industry and Trade
Dr Hani Mulki
17 September 2001
Minister of Trade
Dr Samir Mutawi
18 September 2001
Minister of Information
6 March 2002
Omar Nabulsi
20 September 2002
Minister of National Economy
Dr Hazem Nusseibeh
18 September 2002
Foreign Minister
Prince Raad bin Zaid
16 September 2002
Lord Chamberlain
General Natheer Rasheed
20 September 2002
Director of Intelligence
Zaid Rifa’i
19 September 2002
Prime Minister
20 December 2002
Abdullah Salah
12 December 2002
Ambassador
Name
Date
Principal Position
Princess Sarvath
11 January 2007
Wife of Prince Hassan
Dr Jamal Sha’er
20 September 2001
Minister of Local Government
Sharif Zaid bin Shaker
12 March 2002
Prime Minister
Laila Sharaf
18 September 2002
Minister of Information
22 December 2002
General Ali Shukri
16 September 2001
Director of Hussein’s Private Office
17 September 2001
18 September 2001
11 September 2002
13 September 2002
11 December 2002
13 December 2002
14 December 2002
15 December 2002
16 December 2002
19 December 2002
22 December 2002
24 February 2003
26 March 2003
9 June 2003
12 June 2003
General Ihsan Shurdom
12 March 2002
Commander of the Air Force
General Tahseen Shurdom
16 September 2002
Director of Public Security
Prince Talal bin Muhammad
11 September 2002
National Security Adviser to Hussein
12 September 2002
24 September 2002
Mreiwad al-Tall
12 September 2001
Court Official
Tariq al-Tall
11 August 2001
Academic
Dr Fayez Tarawneh
18 December 2002
Prime Minister
ISRAELI OFFICIALS
(Interviews were held in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem)
Major-General Meir Amit
21 March 2002
Director of the Mossad
Dr Yossi Beilin
23 June 2004
Minister of Justice
Name
Date
Principal Position
Simha Dinitz
21 July 1982
Director-General of PM’s office
Miriam Eshkol
12 December 2002
Librarian of the Knesset
Mordechai Gazit
22 June 2004
Director-General of PM’s office
General Shlomo Gazit
23 June 2004
Director of Military Intelligence
Eitan Haber
24 June 2004
Director-General of PM’s office
Dan Meridor
21 June 2004
Minister of Justice
Dan Patir
20 June 2004
Press Secretary to PM
Shimon Peres
22 June 2004
Prime Minister
24 June 2004
Itzhak Rabin
22 August 1982
Prime Minister
Professor Itamar Rabinovich
23 June 2004
Ambassador to United States
Moshe Sasson
8 September 1982
Ambassador to Egypt
21 March 2002
Yaacov Shimoni
26 September 1982
Foreign Ministry Official
AMERICAN OFFICIALS
(Interviews held in Washington, DC)
Wesley Egan
2 December 2003
Ambassador to Jordan
Cranwell G. Montgomery
3 December 2003
Ambassador to Oman
Nicholas Veliotis
3 December 2003
Ambassador to Jordan
Richard Viets
1 December 2003
Ambassador to Jordan
BRITISH OFFICIALS
Sir Mark Allen
23 February 2007 (Oxford)
Political Counsellor, Amman
Christopher Prentice
7 November 2006 (Oxford)
Ambassador to Jordan
Sir Roger Tomkys
29 September 2001 (Cambridge)
Ambassador to Syria
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ARCHIVES
Ben-Gurion Archive, Sede-Boker
Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem (CZA)
Israel State Archives, Jerusalem (ISA)
Lyndon B. Johnson Library, Austin, Texas (LBJL)
Middle East Centre Archive, St Antony’s College, Oxford
Public Record Office, London (PRO)
United States National Archives, Washington, DC (USNA)
PRIVATE PAPERS
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Dr Yaacov Herzog, Jerusalem
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Washington Post
Yediot Aharonot
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