AMMAN: King Abdallah vowed yesterday to protect Jordan from the war in Syria. Abdallah said Jordan “will emerge victorious in the face of all challenges, the way we always have in the past.” Should the worsening Syrian crisis “become a threat to our country, we are capable at any time of taking the necessary measures to protect our country and people’s interests,” added Abdallah, whose country hosts more than 500,000 Syrians who fled the war.
Meanwhile, extremists blew up a Shiite mosque in a village in eastern Syria stormed by opposition fighters earlier this week, another sign of the sectarian hatred growing in the country’s civil war, activists said Sunday.
They said that the demolition was carried out by Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria and shows the determination of extremists to drive Shiites out.
King: Jordan ‘can protect itself from Syria war threats’
King: Jordan ‘can protect itself from Syria war threats’
