Jordanian authorities arrested over 40 people suspected of membership in the Islamic State or the Al Nusrah Front, as “precautionary measures” to deter others from joining the terrorist groups. A lawyer for Jordan’s Salafist movement said that over the past week 46 members of the movement had been arrested for pledging alliegiance to the Islamic State, and added: “The division between ISIS and the Al Nusrah Front in Syria has had a negative effect on the Salafist Movement in Jordan, although many of its leading figures supported ISIS.” Prosecutors recently charged eight men with recruiting for Hezbollah and planning attacks on US soldiers in 2006 and the Israeli Embassy in Amman.
