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Jordan boosts border forces amid IS threat from Iraq, Syria
[Ynet] A senior Jordanian military commander says the kingdom faces a growing threat to its border as Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... forces of Evil in neighboring Iraq and Syria are being dislodged from their strongholds by military offensives. Brig. Gen. Sami Kafawin told news hounds on Thursday he expects some IS fighters, increasingly on the defensive, to make their way to southern Syria and Jordan's border. Kafawin commands the border guard forces. He says there has been a "big difference" in threat levels over the last three years and that nearly half of Jordan's military personnel and resources have been deployed along the Iraqi and Syrian border--a sharp increase from before the 2011 outbreak of the Syrian conflict. He says Jordan is deploying "more and more forces" at the border to safeguard against IS. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-20 |
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