Many Iraqis head home to defend their country from foreign armiesOver 5,000 Iraqis return home from Jordan
5,284 Iraqis have crossed border into Iraq since March 16, contradicting Jordan's expectations.
AL KARAMEH, on the Jordan-Iraq border - More than 5,000 Iraqis have crossed from Jordan into Iraq over the last week, a border guard official at al-Karameh said Monday.
Colonel Ahmad al-Hazaymeh, chief of the al-Karameh frontier post, told the official Petra news agency that "5,284 Iraqis have crossed the border into Iraq since March 16."
"Between Sunday and Monday morning, 566 Iraqis returned home," he told the official Petra news agency.
He said Jordan had been expecting "movement in the opposite direction" from Iraq to Jordan, but it had not occurred yet.
No Iraqi refugees have entered Jordan since the US-led war aimed at toppling the regime in Baghdad began on Thursday
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Young men return to join fight against Allies
By Justin Huggler in Amman
25 March 2003
The young men waiting aboard the grubby bus that was taking them home to Iraq were adamant. "We are going back to fight the Americans and the British," one of them said. "We are going back to fight for our homeland."
One of the others added: "If the Jordanians would let us, we would take guns with us now, so we could start fighting them the moment we crossed the border."
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