Jordan mobilizes reserves after ISIS captures border point

Western military sources reported Sunday night that Jordan had begun calling up reserve units for deployment on the Iraqi border for repelling a possible incursion by Iraqi al Qaeda.  This was in reaction to the capture by ISIS of the main crossing from Iraq to Jordan at Turaibi which gained the Islamistgs control of the strategic trade artery between the two countries.

 

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