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Few Dozens? Few Hundred? Poverty Or Paradise? (Jordanians Concerned About ISIS Advance)

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Channel: Wrath0fKhan · 2014 · People & Blogs

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As ISIS continues to cause chaos in Iraq and Syria, many in Jordan wonder if they might be next. CNN's Jomana Karadsheh reports.

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Jordan shuts down Muslim Brotherhood headquarters (BBC, Apr 13, 2016)
http://bbc.in/1SfbGwP

Jordan raid: Eight killed in Irbid as forces 'foil IS plot' (BBC, Mar 2, 2016)
http://bbc.in/1RFYduh


Report: Most IS Bombs Made With Civilian Components (nbcenws, Feb 24, 2016)
http://abcn.ws/1TGsYm0


In Jordan, ISIS hits a wall... for now (al-arabiya, June 30, 2014)
http://bit.ly/1o101MU
"...Maan has a long history of problems with tribes and their networks. As we know, there were major uprisings in Maan during the 1990s and that Salafists are arriving in Maan from other parts of Jordan and Saudi Arabia on a regular basis. 

This city is seen as a springboard to the Kingdom and Jordan's role is to act as "gatekeeper." If the Jordanian government strikes Maan, it is to stop an attack on the Saudi Kingdom. And that is exactly what happened last week when troops apparently went in to settle down the situation. 

According to a Jordanian official, ISIS attempted to enter Saudi Arabia at Araar. A good marker of any problems in Jordan between Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Syria is to watch Maan: the city is a barometer for tribal and jihadist activity..."




Jordan fears homegrown ISIS more than invasion from Iraq (wapo, June 27, 2014)
http://wapo.st/1qjyFX0 
"...Demonstrators angry with Jordan's government have unfurled in this desert city the black battle flags of the al-Qaeda-inspired extremists now in control of large swaths of Iraq, stirring fears that support for the group is growing in Jordan.

At two rallies in Maan this week, scores of young men, some in black masks, raised their fists, waved home-made banners bearing the logo and inscriptions of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and shouted, "Down, down with Abdullah," the king of Jordan. Abdullah II, a close U.S. ally, is widely viewed as a moderate in a country considered an oasis of stability in the Middle East.

The demonstrations have been the first public displays of support for ISIS in Jordan.

Abdullah's government has put the country's border guard on alert, reinforced troops along its 125-mile frontier with Iraq and added tanks and armor to thwart any move into Jordan by the ISIS militants, who, along with Sunni insurgents, have seized a string of cities from northern Syria to western Iraq.

But more troubling to the Amman government than the possibility of an ISIS invasion are signs that support for the group may be expanding here and that homegrown recruits could take action in Jordan, according to former military officers, security analysts and members of Jordan's jihadist movement.

"We no longer trust or respect the government and have been searching for an alternative that ensures our basic rights," said Mohammed Kreishan, one of the marchers. "In the Islamic State, we have found our alternative."

On Wednesday, anti-government demonstrators gathered at the mosque in central Maan and marched toward the courthouse with gasoline bombs, but they were deterred by the presence of Jordanian riot police in armored personnel carriers....."




Jordan shaken by threats from ISIS, Iraq, Syria (Al-Monitor, June 25, 2014)
http://bit.ly/1mwRzsg
"The southern city of Maan, 180 kilometers south of Amman, has rebelled many times against the central authority. This week, it rose again against the government, which has sent troops to seek out dangerous outlaws. But Maan is also the base of Salafist jihadists and many of its sons have joined the fight in Syria. Although the majority supports Jabhat al-Nusra, two weeks ago tens of ISIS supporters marched through the city's squares brandishing the flags of ISIS and calling Maan "the Fallujah of Jordan." The march, after Friday prayers, was not stopped by the local police.

Local columnist Fahd al-Khitan criticized the government's hostile attitude toward the moderate Muslim Brotherhood, preventing their political party from holding its annual conference in a public venue, while looking the other way when ISIS supporters were allowed to march through the streets of Maan. He wrote in Al-Ghad daily that young Jordanians are being lured by radical Islamist forces in light of their recent victories.

Just as Europeans now fear the return of jihadists to Europe, Jordan, too, is worried about the effect Jordanian fighters will have when they come home. Jordanians are reminded of the return of so-called Arab Afghans from Afghanistan in the late 1980s and their hostility toward the regime. Among those coming back were the likes of Zarqawi, who later became active al-Qaeda members.....""




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