Jordan's military court has convicted five Jordanians of trying to sneak into neighboring Syria to join rebels seeking to unseat President Bashar Al-Assad. The court sentenced the men in a brief hearing Monday to five years in jail with hard labour on charges of attempting to illegally cross the border to join a banned group. Presiding judge Ahmed Qatarneh said the five — in their 20s and 30s — had confessed to planning to join the Al-Qaida-linked Jabhat Al-Nusra, or Nusra Front. They were arrested in February 2012 on the Jordanian-Syrian border. The prosecutor's indictment said the five were members of the hard-line Salafist Jihadist Movement. The group is banned in Jordan. Security sources say several hundred Jordanians have joined rebels in Syria. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/82315.aspx