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Mideast push helps US in Asia: Kerry aide
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Washington, District Of Columbia (AFP) Aug 02, 2013


Jordan foils bid to smuggle arms from Syria
Amman (AFP) Aug 02, 2013 - Jordanian border guards have foiled an attempt to smuggle large amounts of weapons and drugs into the kingdom from Syria, the army said Friday.

"Forces of the frontier guard yesterday evening (Thursday) seized large quantities of munitions and different types of drugs during an attempt to smuggle them into the kingdom," the army said in a statement.

The statement, carried by the official Petra news agency, did not specify the number or types of weaponry seized, or the nationalities and number of smugglers.

Government weekly Al-Rai cited border guard chief Hussein Zoyud as saying "a group of men implicated in this arms smuggling attempt were arrested, and an inquiry is now under way".

On June 6, Jordanian border guards again intercepted a large haul of weapons being smuggled in from Syria.

Jordan has tightened its borders, arresting and imprisoning dozens of jihadists trying to cross into its war-torn neighbour.

Amman denies accusations by the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that it has opened up its borders to jihadist fighters.

The US push to make peace in the Middle East is paying off in Southeast Asia by improving the US image among young Muslims, a senior official said Friday.

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators this week resumed long-stalled negotiations on a peace deal after six trips to the region in as many months by Secretary of State John Kerry.

Danny Russel, the top State Department official for East Asia, rejected criticism that Kerry has switched focus away from Asia and said he heard praise in the region for the Middle East efforts.

"The seriousness and the activism of these efforts on Secretary Kerry's part and the visibility that is attached to them changes the regional stereotype of the United States as biased or as not helpful," Russel told reporters.

In Muslim-majority Indonesia and Malaysia, "there has been a long-held perception that the United States wasn't actively engaged as a constructive force in bringing about reconciliation and peace and justice in the Middle East," he said.

Russel pointed out that Indonesia and Malaysia had young populations, meaning that many "have no experience of the United States other than an inherited stereotype."

Due to negative perceptions, "it has often been difficult for political leaders to justify or to get broad-based public support for dramatic steps to support the US and to help on programs that are important to us, whether that is counter-terrorism or counter-proliferation or other things," he said.

President Barack Obama and his first-term secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, put an early priority on building relations with Southeast Asia, charging that former president George W. Bush ignored the vibrant region due to preoccupation with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Obama administration has seen Indonesia as a prime partner following the rapid transition to democracy in the world's largest Muslim-majority country.

Obama has also moved to expand ties with Malaysia, whose former leader Mahathir Mohamad was an strident critic of the West.

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