Jordanian jihadis returning from Syria war rattle US-aligned kingdom

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* Kingdom barring or detaining all militants at border * Ends tacit tolerance of citizens joining Syria war * Increasing trials of jihadis swamp Jordanian courts * Amman is key U.S. ally against Islamist militancy * Treads fine line to keep channels to Damascus open By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN, April 17 (Reuters) - Jordanian Islamist Ahmad Mahmoud fought with rebels in Syria for six weeks earlier this year, then slipped back across the border to seek treatment for a war wound - even though the authorities had warned him **t to return. Within a week the bearded 23-year-old fighter found himself in the dock at a military court, facing terrorism charges filed by authorities who are taking an increasingly tough stance against homegrown militants fighting in Syria's civil war. Amman treats returning jihadists as a security threat to be nipped in the bud and, with an eye to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's potential to tough out the uprising against him, wants to keep channels open to a government with which it retains diplomatic and trade ties.

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