Jordan takes ** chances in confronting homegrown Jihadis
 

* IS burning of Jordanian pilot shakes troubled kingdom * Government steps up security *****down, arrests of jihadis * Despair and poverty are fertile ground for IS recruiters * Jordanians put aside differences and rally behind King By Samia Nakhoul and Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN, Feb 26 (Reuters) - At Jordan's State Security court, Islamic State militants, clad in green military fatigues with long, unkempt beards, stood impassively, awaiting sentence inside a black iron cage. The barred enclosure was very much like the one in which their fellow jihadis in Syria burned alive Jordanian pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh, igniting a storm across a troubled kingdom in an uneasy alliance with the West against Islamic State (IS).

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