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According to first-hand accounts and reports provided to Boiling Frogs Post by several sources in Jordan, during the last few hours foreign military groups, estimated at hundreds of individuals, began to spread near the villages of the north-Jordan city of “Al-Mafraq”, which is adjacent to the Jordanian and Syrian border.
According to one Jordanian military officer who asked to remain anonymous, hundreds of soldiers who speak languages other than Arabic were seen during the past two days in those areas moving back and forth in military vehicles between the King Hussein Air Base of al-Mafraq (10 km from the Syrian border), and the vicinity of Jordanian villages adjacent to the Syrian border, such as village Albaej (5 km from the border), the area around the dam of Sarhan, the villages of Zubaydiah and al-Nahdah adjacent to the Syrian border.
Our Iraqi journalist source in London provided us with the following related information:
“Some of the US forces that left the Ain al-Assad Air base in Iraq last Thursday, did not come back to the USA or its base in Germany, but were transferred to Jordan during the evening hours.”
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/12/11/bfp-exclusive-developing-story-hundreds-of-us-nato-soldiers-arrive-begin-operations-on-the-?du
"The options under consideration include establishing a humanitarian corridor or safe zone for civilians in Syria along the Turkish border, extending humanitarian aid to the Syrian rebels, providing medical aid to Syrian clinics, engaging more with the external and internal opposition, forming an international contact group, or appointing a special coordinator for working with the Syrian opposition (as was done in Libya), according to the two officials, both of whom are familiar with the discussions but not in attendance at the meetings."
How he spun this into "war is inevitable" is anyone's guess.
(aside) The blog noted in the OP is 10 days old, fwiw. It's a fluid situation, nothing is inevitable. Hyperbole doesn't benefit any realistic discussion of the situation.
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A proactive move to protect nationals. Understandable, totally reasonable and prudent.
There is a violent civil conflict ongoing in Syria. No one disputes that. The surrounding blog chatter about imminent invasions, inevitable war or such is just that, imo. Chatter.
May prove to be the case or may not. It's conjecture.
(And a personal aside) Your condescension does little to promote discussion on the topic. I'm interested in what's going on. Would like to learn a bit more about the situation. Obviously have some strong doubts about some of the reports. I'm just leery of blog opinion pieces.
They're fine as opinion, often a stretch though in journalistic terms.
But not interested, or willing, to play a snide back and forth here.
you can find the articles pretty easy actually.
Their search function is very good. Foreign Affairs, not so much.
and it appeared in YOUR PRESS. If they changed that, that is after that story RAN... it was even posted on DU... you may want to look for it. I need to prove zero to you. I realize that you will also say this NPR story is false, so the contact info is for YOUR SAKE. At this point I will give you guys that info so you can do that.
Have a good day.
I mean you also said that things were not going where they are RIGHT NOW.
By the way, before DC changes it's mind
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/318253
