Jordan jails 6 for trying to join Syria jihadists

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Source: Gulf News / AFP

Amman: A military tribunal jailed six extremists Wednesday for trying to join the Al Qaida-linked Al Nusra Front to fight against Syrian President Bashar Al Assad’s forces, a court official said.

“The state security court sentenced the six Salafist men to two and a half years in jail each for attempting to infiltrate Syria and join Al Nusra and fight the Syrian regime,” he said.

Salafists espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam.

“The convicts, arrested in December as they tried to cross the border, were charged with carrying out acts that would expose Jordan and its citizens to the risk of acts of aggression and revenge,” the official added.

Read more: http://gulfnews.com/news/region/syria/jordan-jails-6-for-trying-to-join-syria-jihadists-1.1232654

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1. Jordan is really living on the edge...nt

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2. CYA /nt

[Jesus Malverde]

3. Jordan should arrest itself....

Jun 26, 2013

The Central Intelligence Agency has begun moving weapons to Jordan from a network of secret warehouses

The CIA is expected to spend up to three weeks bringing light arms and possibly antitank missiles to Jordan.

Talks are under way with other countries, including France, about pre-positioning European-procured weapons in Jordan.

To accelerate the effort, the CIA is considering putting U.S. military special-operations force units under agency authority to conduct some of the training. The U.S. is also considering using special-operations teams from Jordan and the United Arab Emirates to ramp up the training effort, officials said.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-begins-shipping-arms-syrian-232600182.html