TFIZ01: JORDAN WILL NOT PERMIT ENTRY TO FLEEING

S E C R E T AMMAN 002354 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/17/2013 TAGS: PREL IZ JO SUBJECT: TFIZ01: JORDAN WILL NOT PERMIT ENTRY TO FLEEING IRAQI REGIME OFFICIALS REF: SECSTATE 98747 Classified By: PolCouns Doug Silliman for reasons 1.5 (B)(D) ¶1. (S) Ambassador April 17 covered ref points on fleeing Iraqi officials with Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher. The Ambassador asked that Jordan not permit fleeing Iraqi officials entry into Jordan, and asked that the GOJ inform the USG if Jordan received any information about the travel of former Iraqi officials. ¶2. (S) Muasher responded "we don't intend to take them in," and had his assistant write down the names of the five senior Iraqi officials mentioned in reftel. He asked why the names of Saddam Hussein and Qusay Saddam Hussein did not appear on that list. Did the USG know something more about their fate? If so, he asked that we inform the GOJ. GNEHM