The ex-Mufti of Jerusalem and Syrian Premier Husni Zayim have reached an agreement on military cooperation, the New York Times reported today from Beirut. The dispatch said that a special regiment of Mufti followers will formed and attached to the regular Syrian Army.
The report noted that “ostensibly they (the Mufti’s troops) are to aid in the vent of an Israeli attack on Syria, but they could equally well be used in the event of a dispute with King Abdullah.” The new agreement provides that 2,000 picked Palestinians with previous military training will be formed in a special unit, with about #####-tenth of them reported to be German-trained. The dispatch added that the Mufti “1 provide his unit with a full shipload of small arm3, which is said to have already teen received from Greece.
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