Report: Foreign Troops Begin to Spread Near the Villages of Al-Mafraq
Update 1:
Today at 12:00 P.M. we contacted DOD Press Office via two voicemail
messages and one e-mail asking for comment(s) on this story. As of 6:00
P.M. EST we have not heard back.
Update 2:
Another journalist with a major mainstream media publication was told
by his editors that there would be no coverage or follow up on these
developments.
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.
Another report received from our
source in Amman identified an additional US-NATO Command Center in
“al-Houshah,’ a village near Mafraq.
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.”
The above information was further
corroborated by our correspondent and advisor Nizar Nayouf who
interviewed an employee in the London-based office of Royal Jordanian
Airlines:
“At least one US aircraft carrying military personnel landed in the Prince Hassan Air base located about 100 km to the east of the city of Al-Mafraq.”
Earlier last week, Jordanian news websites disclosed that “Western
officials have requested the King to allow establishing an electronic
spy station in the north of Jordan (near the Syrian border) in order to
access the Syrian army and contact Syrian high-rank officers for
convincing them to make a military coup or (at least) rebel against the
regime”.
Nizar Nayouf, BFP advisor and correspondent on Syria in London, had the following statement on Al-Mafraq:
“The al-Mafraq air base, which now includes Air Force Academy, was a starting point for “conspiratorial activities” by Jordan, The UK and Israel against Syria in the past, particularly in the 1960s. In September 1968, a Syrian commando Major, Salim Hatoom, who fled to Jordan with a number of officers after a failed coup attempt, established a camp from which he started a rebel military against the then left-wing government of Syria under president Nureddin al-Atassi and Salah Jadid. By the end of 1970s and early 1980s, the Syrian Islamic Brotherhood and their military wing “At-Taleeah al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah” (the Islamic Militant Vanguard) used the same base for its military struggle against president Hafez a-Assad regime, in which they were being trained by the Jordanian and Israeli intelligence agents, and cars were being bombed before they were sent to the streets of Syrian cities for the killing of innocents and undermining state facilities.”
Mr. Nayouf went on to emphasize the irony of the situation:
“I guess history repeats itself but as farce…Last spring, that tens of Syrian soldiers, who fled to Jordan, were transferred to a camp west of the Jordanian city of “Salt”, in which officers from Israeli military intelligence (AMAN) began the investigation with them under the supervision of the Jordanian military intelligence. This was to extract information from them on issues related to the development of the Syrian army, weapons and training, especially after 2006.”
We contacted our expert sources on
US media and intelligence-military and were told that the US media has
been told not to report on this latest development until Tuesday,
December 13. Boiling Frogs Post is the first news website to report on
these latest developments.
This story is developing and we
await further details and confirmation from our sources in Turkey and
Jordan. For additional Boiling Frogs Post Syria coverage see here and here.
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*Nizar Nayouf and James Corbett contributed to this exclusive Boiling Frogs Post report.
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/12/11/bfp-exclusive-developing-story-hundreds-of-us-nato-soldiers-arrive-begin-operations-on-the-jordan-syria-border/
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