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Over 1,300 Jordanians fight in the ranks of ISIS in Iraq claims former Jordanian PM

Former Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit
Former Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit

(IraqiNew.com) Former Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit revealed that about 1,300 Jordanians are fighting in the ranks of the organization of the so-called Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in Iraq; more than 200 elements are killed so far.

Bakhit said in a lecture in Amman on Saturday evening that the closest-to-realistic estimates indicate between 2000 to 4000 Jordanians belong to the stream of Takfirism; about 1,300 of them are fighting in Iraq and more than two hundred elements are killed.”

Al-Bakhit said “there’s a possibility of the development of the Iraqi crisis represented in the agreement of Iraqi factions to divide Iraq,” pointing to “the difficulty of such scenario lies in Baghdad’s mixed population and that most of the resources exist in a specific area, Kirkuk and the south; and are lacking in areas of the north.”

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