"Nope. Nope. Wudn't us."
Amman was careful yesterday to deny that Syria is involved in the entry of the two booby trapped car to Jordan via the Syrian lands, by saying "this was not made at the knowledge and responsibility of the Syrian authority," at a time during which Syria expressed its strong regret "over these news and stressed care to maintain Jordan's security." The official spokesman for the Jordanian Government Asmaa al-Khuder said yesterday that Amman "highly appreciates Damascus care to preserve Jordan's security " and explained that "even it is proved that the arrested group and the explosives they have crossed the northern borders from Syria to Jordan, we are confident and sure that was made not at the knowledge of the Syrian authorities."
| "Oh, certainly not! We're sure our neighbor to the north wouldn't do anything like that!" |
She indicated that al-Ramtha area on the northern borders between Jordan and Syria "includes one official border check point but has a vast area," adding " we have not officially announced from where the two cars had crossed." For its part, the Syrian authorities denied these reports, one Syrian official said that the authorities express" its strong regret" over what was stated by the mass media that two cars filled with explosives entered Jordan through the Syrian borders, and stressed that "Syria is careful to maintain the security of Jordan and Arab brothers the same as its own security," considering that such news are deliberately intending to damage fraternal relations between the two states. The sources stressed that " Syria's national stances always ensures its total rejection to these terrorist acts." |