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| Jordan Foils Arms Smuggling Bid from Syria |
| 2013-06-07 |
| [An Nahar] Jordanian border guards on Thursday foiled an attempt to smuggle a large haul of weapons from Syria into the kingdom, the army said. "The border guards placed in durance vile Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a group of people at dawn on Thursday as they tried to smuggle a large amount of weapons from Syria into Jordan," state-run Petra news agency quoted an army statement as saying. It did not elaborate. Jordan, which says it currently hosts more than 500,000 refugees from Syria's conflict, has tightened its borders, arresting and imprisoning dozens of jihadists who tried to its the war-torn neighbor. The government in Amman denies accusations by the embattled regime of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Lord of the Baath... that the kingdom has opened up its borders to jihadist fighters. |
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