The Aqaba Special Economic Zone is a model for other parts of Jordan to follow.
The Turks expected an attack from British ships patrolling the waters of the Gulf of Aqaba to the west.
The legal underpinnings to attract more investment are being laid, including the establishment of an ambitious special economic zone on the Gulf of Aqaba.
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Lawrence("Lawrence of Arabia") captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks.
Rove accompanied the president during the Sharm e-Sheik and Aqaba summits.
Before the meeting in Aqaba, the American president held a summit with Arab leaders in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to win their endorsement of the plan.
As the accredited port of entry for Iraqi food supplies, Aqaba is now a major trading centre attracting foreign companies such as rice and wheat distributors from Australia.
"He does not take no for an answer and the word impossible is not in his vocabulary, " says Akel Bitaji, chief commissioner of the Aqaba Special Economic Authority.
You can also travel between Tala Bay and Aqaba by boat, which offers good views of the city and allows for snorkelling with turtles, angelfish, tigerfish, seahorses and dolphins.
But she would do well to consult documents like the Weissglas letter, or the notes of the Aqaba meeting, before suggesting that there was no meeting of the minds.
Ditto joint infrastructure projects, announced with much fanfare but still to be begun, such as an airport at the head of the Red Sea, to serve both Eilat and Aqaba.
In October 2004, a series of explosions hit several hotels in the Sinai resorts of Taba and Ras Shitan, about 100 miles northwest along the Gulf of Aqaba coast, killing 34 people.
And Simon Murie, founder of niche tour operator Swimtrek, says the Strait of Hormuz (Oman-Iran), Gulf of Aqaba (Egypt-Saudi Arabia) and La Perouse Strait (Hokkaido, Japan - Sakhalin, Russia) are all waiting to be swum.
It is partly thanks to the success of Aqaba and the free trade agreement with the US that US President George W Bush recently announced plans to expand the free trade zone throughout the Middle East.
Crude oil prices rose following the fire at the massive Paraguana refining complex, which, combined with a halt in Ecuador's exports, and a reported blast at the Aqaba port of Jordan, was enough to give the market the jitters.
Lawrence decided to attack from the east instead, coming at the city from the unprotected desert, and to do that he led his men on an audacious, six-hundred-mile loop up from the Hejaz, north into the Syrian desert, and then back down toward Aqaba.
The Palestinian militants accused Mr Abbas of conceding too much ground at Aqaba, without calling for Israel's full withdrawal from the territories it occupied in the 1967 war (including East Jerusalem) or pushing for the right of return for Palestinian refugees who fled in 1948 when Israel was created.
At a press conference at the National Press Club at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, the Center for Security Policy will reveal the results of a national poll conducted last week in the wake of the Aqaba summit between President Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.
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