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Jordan Border Guards Clash with Gunmen
[An Nahar] Jordanian border guards clashed at dawn Saturday with gunnies in a border area and cooled for a few yearsDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! all of the gunnies, Information Minister Samih Maayatah said. "Jordanian border guards cooled for a few years Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! at dawn a group of gunnies in one of the border areas after an exchange of gunfire," he said in remarks carried by the state-run Petra news agency. The were no further details and later Maayatah declined, in reply to Agence La Belle France Presse, to say where the festivities occurred or identify the gunnies. "This is a military issue," he said, refusing to give further details. Jordan shares land borders with Iraq, Israel, Syria, the West Bank and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in their national face... The tiny desert kingdom has beefed up its security along the border with Syria, since a deadly uprising against the government of  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... erupted in mid-March. In an interview with AFP earlier this month, Jordan's King Abdullah II warned of a spillover of the Syrian conflict into neighboring countries, saying the risk is "looming closer." Jordan currently hosts more than 200,000 Syrians who have fled the bloodletting. The king said that not all Syrians who came to Jordan were seeking safe haven. "We have discovered that a few came here, not to seek safe haven, but to carry out other missions -- intelligence gathering on refugees, or schemes to target Jordan's stability and security," he added. Posted by: Fred 2012-09-23 |
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