He said this would help improve basic services at refugee camps along the Jordan-Syria border.
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Meanwhile, Jordan's King Abdullah ruled out closing Jordan's border with Syria.
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Up to 200 U.S. Special Forces will set up a staging area in eastern Jordan near the border with Iraq, the sources said, where they will fly the airborne troops into the region.
The King Abdullah camp, near Jordan's northern border with Syria, is one of the smaller camps in the country.
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It also controls entry to the West Bank via the border with Jordan.
The BBC's Wyre Davis, who is at the camp, said thousands of people were crossing the border into Jordan every night and half of them were thought to be children.
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Abdullah appealed for greater international help for more than 300, 000 Syrian refugees who have already fled over the border into Jordan and are suffering in the grip of a cruel winter.
There are no pressing border security issues between the countries, which share a remote desert border along northeastern Jordan and western Iraq's Anbar province.
Jordan, which shares a border with Syria, is tracking reports of the attack but couldn't confirm whether it involved a chemical weapon, he said.
The interview came as the US and Jordan announced that 200 intelligence, logistics and operations specialists from the US Army's 1st Armored Division were being sent to Jordan to help contain violence along the border.
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Jordan has made it clear it will shut its border with Iraq as soon as conflict breaks out, though it has said it will help the UN to care for refugees on the Iraqi side of the border.
In 1994, Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty in a ceremony at their border attended by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
More than a million refugees have fled the fighting, crossing the border and flooding into overloaded camps in neighboring Turkey and Jordan.
Some 110, 000 of those who have sought shelter in Jordan are living in the desert camp of Zaatari, near its northern border with Syria.
Some 290 miles long and 85 miles wide with a long border on the Mediterranean, it is surrounded on land by Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
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The UK Border Agency said Shatanawi was handed over to the authorities in his native Jordan and is banned from returning to the UK for 10 years.
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