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On January 16, the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF) announced that an officer was killed and three soldiers were wounded when drug traffickers trying to illegally enter the country from Syria fired at a Border Guard patrol along the border.
“At Sunday [January 15] dawn, traffickers opened fire on a Border Guard patrol on the northeastern borders before the troops returned fire and pushed the smugglers back to inside Syrian territory.
The incident left Captain Muhammad Khudayrat dead while three other soldiers were injured and were evacuated to a nearby military hospital. A search of the area where the incident took place found narcotics which the smugglers left behind,” an official statement by the JAF reads.
Last year, the JAF clashed with Syrian drugs and weapon traffickers on several occasions. The army even shot down a drone flying a large quantity of drugs across the border on one occasion.
On the Syrian side, authorities have been cracking down on drug traffickers along the border with Joran. On December 28, Syrian security forces seized a large shipment of tens of thousands of Captagon tablets in the southeastern governorate of al-Suwayda. The shipment was destined for Jordan.
Captagon, scientifically known as Fenethylline, is a is a codrug of amphetamine and theophylline. The drug is widely abused in the Middle East, especially in the Arabian Peninsula.
Struck by a disastrous economic crisis and a destructive war, Syria is today one of the main drug production hubs in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Jordan remains the shortest smuggling route to the lucrative drug market of Saudi Arabia and other Arabian Peninsula states.
Jordan deserves it,they are part of the terrorism against Syria.
The King was going to assist Israel and NATO against Hezbollah in 2006.
Hezbollah only but the Jordanians hate Israel.
LOL no
Have you no pity for people? They were just doing their job, watching the border, and some scummy drug pushers took them out. Honestly, I get hating Israel and NATO. I hate them, too, but the hate should stop at the guys in power, the ones who make them worth hating, not Johnny Civil Servant just trying to do his job and go home at the end of the day.
You have a point but it’s Johnny Civil Servant labor that allows the top people to thrive and gain more power.
I see them caught in the middle, trying to stay alive by juggling various foreign interests without getting overwhelmed.
It seems that Syria and Jordan are cooperating. That’s good.
Saudi Arabia have a drug market? LOL
Captagon take me away