well there must have been some special agreement for the air
base to be in the wrong country
since there was no known overt dispute there
so it does seem strange that this is considered a de facto line
but maybe the sliver & other additions to iraq were only leased
or held by some oral agreement
or other special arrangement not technically de jure
seems unusual tho
& would be nice to know more particulars
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper Nielsen"
<jesniel@i...> wrote:
> Somebody else than me must have noticed that Iraq has been
quite a lot in the news lately. Well, less now a days.
>
> But the maps they have showed of that country has been with
either the straight line IQJO or the sailent IQJO, so is there as the
airmap shows a legal border and a de facto border, or is the only
one border. CIA Factbook mentions nothing about any disputes
here.
>
> Jesper
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lowell G. McManus
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 11:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] IQJOSA
>
>
> Yes, that's it exactly. I read somewhere that the reason for the
change was that Iraq wanted to build an air base in the region,
and the best site was on the Jordanian side of the boundary, so
the boundary was changed. That must be the one called
"Ruwayshid" on the map.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jesper Nielsen
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 10:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] IQJOSA
>
>
> Are you referring to the two versions of the border as seen
here?
>
> http://www.1uptravel.com/worldmaps/iraq18.html
>
> Jesper
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lowell G. McManus
> To: Boundary Point
> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 4:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] IQJOSA
>
>
> I can recognize that the Russian at the tripoint refers to the
Jabal 'Unayzah, the peak that delimited it at the time. The Iraquis
and Jordanians did some territorial swaps along their border
since, so I don't know if the new tripoint is the same or not.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jesper Nielsen
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: jni@k...
> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 7:42 AM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] IQJOSA
>
>
> I know this has been posted before
>
> http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/EART/jordan/100k/9-37-139.jpg
>
> but what does the Russian mean, and further what is the
blue line south of the tp?
>
> Jesper
>
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