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| Jordan Jails Five for Promoting IS on Internet |
| 2014-11-18 |
| [AnNahar] A Jordanian court on Monday sentenced five people to jail for being members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group and promoting the jihadist organization on the Internet. Two other trials of suspected jihadist supporters, including a man accused of operating as a cook for Al-Qaeda's Syria branch, also got underway as part as a crackdown on Islamist murderous Moslems. The five men were sentenced to terms ranging from three to five years after being found guilty of "promoting... terrorist organizations" -- a reference to IS -- and of belonging to such groups, the court heard. One of those convicted, Ahmad Abu Ghalluss, was slapped with three extra months in jail, on top of his five-year sentence, for slamming U.S. President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... 's war on terror. "I am with IS and you, enemies of God, are with Obama," Ghalluss shouted in the courtroom after the ruling was delivered. Jordan is one of five Arab States supporting U.S.-led air strikes against the jihadists in Syria and Iraq. Since the start of the campaign at the end of September, Jordan has locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! at least 130 IS sympathizers, lawyer Mussa Abdalat told AFP last week. Abdalat, who represents jihadist suspects, said most of those behind bars are members of Salafist groups which adhere to a strict Sunni interpretation of Islam. Jordan, which shares borders with Iraq and Syria where IS has declared an Islamic "caliphate" on territory it controls, has for years struggled with homegrown Islamists. On Monday the trial began of a man who reportedly left the country "illegally" in July 2013 to join Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate, Al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front. The suspect, Hammam Badr, 31, told the judge he was tasked with "cooking for Nusra fighters" but decided to quit and return home just 10 days after joining them "because I did not like the conditions there". Another suspect also appeared in court accused of pledging allegiance to IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdad on his Facebook page. |
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