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Sunni-Shiite religious war in Iraq feared
(AP)
Updated: 2005-10-10 21:07

They include men arrested as they tried to slip back into Jordan from the turmoil across the border. Such U.S.-aligned regimes as Jordan's and Saudi Arabia's worry that "returnees" from Iraq would soon turn their newfound military skills against their home governments.

The Saudis report stopping more than 60 apparent would-be insurgents from crossing over into Iraq in one recent six-month period. Egyptian authorities have pulled young men from Jordan-bound ferries, on suspicion they were headed for Iraq.

When the U.S. military invaded in 2003, busloads of Iraqi exiles — and some Jordanians — drove into Iraq from Jordan to join the defense. As the anti-U.S. insurgency grew, Jordanian newspapers called it "al-Muqawama al-Sharifah" — the honorable resistance.

But such phrases are vanishing from news reports, and some see disillusionment setting in, including in Salt, another Jordanian city that, like Zarqa, has sent fighters to Iraq.

"At first the propaganda worked on a few young men here," shopkeeper Mohamed Dabbas, 28, said over coffee at a Salt cafe. "But after the losses in Iraq, and the stories about what was going on there, they're not so ready to die."
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