Jordanian court sentences 3 gunmen to prison for alleged terror plot
Jordan’s military court convicted two men Tuesday in a foiled terror conspiracy targeting liquor stores and tourists in this Arab kingdom and jailed each for five years. According to the prosecution indictment, the four men had planned to join the insurgency in Iraq, but changed their plans due to the "bad conditions" in the neighboring war-ravaged country.
… Few details were provided on the defendants’ plans in Aqaba, but their targets in Amman were said to be liquor shops, which they were surveying until police arrested them outside a store in January, with face masks and firearms in their possession.
Source: [AP via Haaretz]
So, after their plans to kill some Iraqis failed, these men thought to themselves: "Hmmm. Maybe we should kill some folks in Jordan instead!" What a great cause! A life sentence might be too lenient for these bloodsuckers!
I am not going to dispute Plymouth’s comment but will chuckle at his phrase “all this regional instability was unheard of two years ago before the war on Iraq.”
Were were you for the past, ummm…75 years?
Roba, Natasha. I can’t disagree more with you.
These men divereged from the norm following the social and religious pressure they face because of the allaince’s occupation on Iraq.
Just come to think about it, all this regional instability was unheard of two years ago before the war on Iraq.
I am certain these aren’t the people to fingerpoint. On the other hand, its the officials that allowed the American troops to base on Jordan’s soil that should bear all the blame.
Bas 5 years? God! They deserve to spend more than a lifetime rotting in a jailcell!
did you ever hear the saying “al aqraboon awla bil ma’aroof”?