Fear takes hold on Iraq's desert road to Jordan By Edmund Blair RUWEISHED, Jordan, March 23 (Reuters) - The Iraqi driver was so scared travelling the desert road to Jordan after a night of heavy U.S. bombing on Baghdad that he regularly put his hands out of the window to dry his sweating palms. His passengers, who recounted their tale on Sunday, were South African "human shields" fleeing war in Iraq. They said they too were terrified on Saturday as they passed charred vehicles, burning buildings and a bombed fuel station on the highway to the Jordanian border. The only...
