After risking their lives and the lives of their children in order to cross the border into Jordan, displaced Syrians still aren't safe. According to The Jordan Times:
Security
services detained early Thursday a Syrian national suspected of
attempting to poison fellow citizens who took refuge in the border city
of Ramtha, activists and security sources said. The
development came amidst rising concern among officials of attempts by
supporters of the Syrian regime to infiltrate the Kingdom.
According
to activists, security services detained in the early hours of the day a
Syrian national caught tampering with water tanks in Al Bashabsheh, a
housing complex in Ramtha that currently hosts some 2,000 Syrian
refugees. The
suspect was a Syrian national who recently arrived at the compound,
used by Jordanian authorities as an initial holding facility for Syrians
who cross into the Kingdom illegally.
“Some
residents woke up in the middle of the night and discovered one of the
new arrivals attempting to place a poisonous substance in the water
tanks,” said Mohammed, an Al Bashabsheh resident who did not wish to
reveal his full name. According to Mohammed, residents restrained the “would-be assassin” before he was arrested by security services...
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