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Jordan king vows to hit back against border attackers
2016-06-22
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Jordan's King Abdullah vowed to hit back "with an iron fist" against attackers who killed six army border guards with a boom-mobile near the frontier with Syria on Tuesday, a palace statement said.

The kingdom’s army chief of staff announced on Tuesday that Jordan's northern and northeastern borders with Syria were closed military zones.

The order comes into immediate effect, just hours after six Jordanian border guards were killed in a suicide kaboom on their military post in a desolate area in the country's far eastern border area with Syria that also converges with the Iraqi border.

The attack took place at 05:30 AM local Jordanian time after an explosives-laden vehicle blew up a few hundred meters from a camp for Syrian refugees in a desolate area where the borders of Iraq, Syria and Jordan meet, Jordan's army said.

Jordan's state TV says called the incident a "cowardly terrorist attack."
Al Ahram adds:
The army said the suicide bomber set off from a makeshift Syrian refugee camp in no man's land near the Rukban border crossing in Jordan's remote north.

The driver entered Jordanian territory through an opening used for humanitarian aid deliveries and went kaboom! as he reached a military post.
Posted by:Fred

#1  This promise you can count on. King Abdullah is a good man and a fighter.
Posted by: OldSpook   2016-06-22 11:11  

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