[An Nahar] Jordan police on Tuesday were detaining 61 Syrians who were traveling in three trucks near the southern town of Maan, an Islamist stronghold, a statement said."A police patrol in Maan governorate seized today three trucks carrying 61 Syrians, who are now in detention. The drivers were locked away
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too," a Public Security Directorate statement said.
"Investigations are under way to find out more information about them and why they were traveling in these trucks," it said without elaborating.
Maan has a bloody and rebellious past that goes back to the turn of the last century, when the town was the seat of the Great Arab Revolt that crushed the Ottoman rule.
| This would explain why the Palestinian newspaper took that name. How nice to have another mystery cleared up. |