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Article: JORDAN: 3 SENTENCED TO PRISON WITH HARD LABOR FOR PLOTTING "SUBVERSIVE ACTS".(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- May 11, 2004
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According to "Jordan Times", the State Security Court sentenced three men to three years each in prison with hard labor after convicting them of plotting subversive acts in the Kingdom. Omar Khalayleh, 19, Hamza Momeni, 20, and Ayman Khawaldeh, 25, were convicted by the tribunal of conspiring to attack American and Jewish tourists in Jordan. Attorney Hamad Emoush said that the defense would appeal the verdict. Khalayleh is the nephew of fugitive Fadel Nazzal Khalayleh, better known as Abu Musab Zarqawi, wanted in Jordan for ...