Jordan jails 10 for ISIS-claimed Karak attack

Home Jordan News Jordan jails 10 for ISIS-claimed Karak attack 13-11-2018 07:33 AM Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - A Jordanian court on Tuesday sentenced 10 people to prison terms of between three years and life in connection with a deadly 2016 attack claimed by ISIS. The shooting attack in Karak, site of one of the region's largest Crusader castles, killed seven policemen and two Jordanian civilians as well as a female Canadian tourist, and wounded 34 other people. The defendants were charged in state security court, a military tribunal, with "terrorist acts", illegal possession of arms and producing explosives. Two of them were handed life terms, while three were sentenced to 15 years in prison and five others to serve three years in jail. One defendant was acquitted. Courts in Jordan, the target of several deadly attacks, regularly put on trial suspected extremists. A close ally of Washington, the desert kingdom is part of a US-led coalition fighting ISIS in neighboring Syria and Iraq, and it allows coalition forces to use its bases.

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Jordan jails 10 for ISIS-claimed Karak attack

13-11-2018 07:33 AM

Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - A Jordanian court on Tuesday sentenced 10 people to prison terms of between three years and life in connection with a deadly 2016 attack claimed by ISIS.

The shooting attack in Karak, site of one of the region's largest Crusader castles, killed seven policemen and two Jordanian civilians as well as a female Canadian tourist, and wounded 34 other people.

The defendants were charged in state security court, a military tribunal, with "terrorist acts", illegal possession of arms and producing explosives.

Two of them were handed life terms, while three were sentenced to 15 years in prison and five others to serve three years in jail. One defendant was acquitted.

Courts in Jordan, the target of several deadly attacks, regularly put on trial suspected extremists.

A close ally of Washington, the desert kingdom is part of a US-led coalition fighting ISIS in neighboring Syria and Iraq, and it allows coalition forces to use its bases.

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