- AMMAN, Jordan: A Syrian political asylum seeker says Jordanian security forces have moved 60 Syrian army and police defectors from a compound near the border with Syria to a safer place.
Many Syrians fleeing President Bashar Assad’s crackdown on the uprising in their country have sought refuge in neighboring Turkey and Jordan.
Ibrahim Al-Jahamani says the men were suddenly taken and moved on Thursday night.
He declined on Sunday to reveal their new location. He says 40 other Syrians — civilians, like himself — remain in the compound near the border.
A Jordanian official confirmed the move. He declined to say if there was a threat against the lives of the Syrian defectors, who ranged in rank from corporal to colonel.
He insisted on anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.