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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The Turaibil (or Trebiel) crossing is the only paved overland route a cross the Jordanian/Iraqi border and ISIS just shut it down.
Shiite refugees now can’t flee to Jordan.
Shiites refugees won’t (likely can’t) flee the Saudi Arabia -where they are hated.
Maybe part of ISIS goal is to run the Shia’s off to Iran for good, where there is a Shiite majority.
I apologize for that formatting.
Yes - I do hope so. It is always discourteous to fail to acknowledge an old acquaintance.
As well, ISIS should remember to send a note of thanks to the White House, and to the EU, in regard to all the "aid" they were sent in the attempt to "liberate" Syria.
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