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Jordan Fears Homegrown ISIS More than Invasion from Iraq
(Washington Post) William Booth and Taylor Luck - At two rallies in Maan, Jordan, this week, scores of young men waved banners bearing the logo and inscriptions of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and shouted, "Down, down with Abdullah," the king of Jordan. Abdullah's government has put the country's border guard on alert, reinforced troops along its 125-mile frontier with Iraq and added tanks and armor to thwart any move into Jordan by the ISIS militants. But more troubling to the Amman government are signs that homegrown recruits could take action in Jordan. Security analysts estimate that about 2,000 Jordanians are fighting in Syria and Iraq today, at least half of them with ISIS.