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Read the German version of this article. It’s a Monday morning in April and eight cargo planes are waiting at an air force base in the Jordanian desert for permission to take off. It is hot and loud, propellers are roaring. Egypt, Germany, Great Britain and the United Arab Emirates have each sent one aircraft, and the United States has sent three. The first to take off will be a gray-painted C-130 Hercules belonging to the Jordanian Air Force. It is loaded with three tons of freight in cardboard…
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