Posted on 06/23/2014 10:05:05 AM PDT by Fitzy_888
The swiftness of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq has raised fears that it could spill into neighbouring Jordan, which has always struggled to contain its own home-grown jihadists.
In the latest developments, militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) seized the Turaibil crossing with Jordan along with the al-Walid crossing with Syria after government forces pulled out.
On the Jordan/Iraq border, a reporter from the German news agency DPA reported sighting a mobilisation of troops, tanks and missiles.
In a video released on YouTube, five of the group's Mujahideen pledged to take the holy war to Jordan and Lebanon, fostering experts' fear that Jordan could be Isis' next target. The group was originally founded and led by a Jordanian-born Islamist militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who declared alliance to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network in the aftermath of the American-led invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Isis see Jordan's Western-backed King Abdullah as an enemy and in a video posted on YouTube they threatened to "slaughter" him. Some jihadis who appear in the video were Jordanian citizens who tore up their passports in front of the camera.
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ISIS should attack Turkey.
They have a boarder? I wonder how much he pays to live in that islamic shithole.
Yes “border”. (I-phone here and I have fat thumbs.)
The creation of “the Great Caliphate” begins....
Next is Jordan, and then the big one - Saudi Arabia. Once the entire Middle East is run by radical jihadis, we will plenty of reason to launch WW3 there. We will have a monstrous, murderous enemy that we ourselves created.
“missiles”
I doubt it. Rockets, probably.
Jordan is a lot tougher nut to crack and will bloody the nose of ISIS. If it looks like Jordan is in any danger of falling, Israel will defend them.
It's not the first time this has happened.
Look for the Israelis to take those “bombs in the basement” out. They will most likely need to use them.
What's left of the civilized world should get together and eliminate ISIS now, before the cancer spreads into other regions. They're a rogue terrorist group that seem to have their own agenda and could easily spread way beyond their mideast playground.
Got to remember that Jordan has an agreement with Israel should trouble start.
LOL! Sometimes autocorrect has a sense of humor...
Isis will try to attack Israel, but I see that will be their first and last mistake, mark my words.
“ISIS should attack Turkey.”
I believe Turkey is backing ISIS. They apparently have its leader in a hospital there.
Recall the story of the scorpion and the toad. The scorpion promises the toad that if the toad carries it across the raging stream it won’t hurt him. But halfway across the scorpion stings the toad. The toad, dying, asks why, as now we will both die. The scorpion said, “Because I’m a scorpion. That’s what I do.”
The media has sanitized this group by calling it ISIS (according to them, “I” is for “Iraq” and “S” is for “Syria”).
But the name was originally translated into English as ISIL, which is correct, because the last letter of the acronym, “S,” is for al Sham, a term that does not mean Syria, but Levant. So it’s the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. In other words, Jordan and the Mediterranean region.
I don't think it will get that far. Taking that Jordanian border crossing into Iraq might have created some urgency to stopping the ISIS maniacs....I sure hope so.
It's deeply disturbing that countries that could stop ISIS are still jockeying for advantage, while the cancer spreads. It's past time for every country that can contribute fire power to do so and stop them. Then go back to their globalist 'Who's the Boss" games.
Maybe the ISIS rebels can wave to their former trainers across the border in Jordan.
LoL...too much, if anything!
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