 AMMAN — The State Security Court last week handed a reduced sentence to a 26-year-old man who was convicted of attempting to blow up the Aqaba Police Station last year. The tribunal first sentenced Mohammad Y. to five years in prison after convicting him of plotting subversive acts, but decided to immediately commute the sentence to half. “The defendant has no previous criminal record and the court wants to give him a second chance in life,” read the verdict, which was made available to the press on Saturday.
| Read on. This is a pity verdict... |
On Jan. 5, the defendant headed to the Aqaba Police Station to bail his father out, court transcripts said.
"I'm here to bail out Pop!"
"How much you got, kid?"
"Twenty bucks."
"Beat it." |
Officers on duty rejected his request and he threatened to blow up the police station if his father was not released.
| "Youse better let Pop go, or I'll blow this joint to kingdom come!" |
“The defendant left the police station and headed to a gas cylinder store, where he threatened the owner with a paper cutter and took a gas cylinder and returned with it to the police station,” court transcripts said.
"Gimme a gas cylinder or I'll... ummm... give you a paper cut!"
"Take it and go!" |
Mohammad climbed over a two-metre wall and entered the officers'' living quarters, where he placed the cylinder, set it on fire and fled, the court added.
| "Ha ha! Yer toast, coppers!" |
A police officer, who woke up to perform the evening prayers, saw the burning cylinder and managed to extinguish it before it exploded, according to the charge sheet.
| "Zzzzzz... What? What?... Oh. Time to bonk my forehead on the ground already?... Hey! What's that? Holy shit! I mean, Allahu Akbar! Gimme the hose, quick!" |
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