Page 279 - Mastermind: The Truth of the British Deep State Revealed

Adnan Harun Yahya

The concave
section in the
Jordan-Saudi
Arabia bor-
der, pointing
towards Am-
man, is called
Winston's
Hiccup.

from the same house should be the king of Iraq. It was also decided that Hu-
sain, the Sharif of Mecca, should control the Hejaz, while the House of Saud

should control the Arab peninsula and the Nejd. Britain would provide fi-

nancial assistance to all of these people, while the Royal Air Force would be
responsible for the security in the area. In line with the decisions, the British
bombed thousands of settlements and martyred tens of thousands of civil-

ians. All those lands shared at the conference were former Ottoman territo-

ries. The zigzag shape on the Jordan-Saudi Arabia border is known as 'Win-
ston's Hiccup'. Years later, Churchill said that he had created Transjordan
"with the stroke of a pen, one Sunday afternoon in Cairo". It was this easy
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for the British deep state to play with countries, states and peoples.