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| Jordanian jailed over IS plot to attack coalition air base |
| 2017-11-30 |
| [IsraelTimes] Man receives 10 years in prison for plan to hit Muwaffaq Salti air base, the staging point for aerial sorties by US-led anti-IS alliance An Amman court tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! a Jordanian man for 10 years Wednesday for plotting attacks on behalf 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 against an air base used by the coalition fighting the jihadists. The state security court found the 52-year-old guilty of "conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts," an AFP correspondent at the courthouse said. The man ‐ whose name was not released by officials ‐ was tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! in November 2016 as he plotted to attack the sprawling Muwaffaq Salti air base in the country’s eastern desert, the staging point for aerial sorties by the US-led coalition fighting IS in Iraq and Syria, the court said. It said the man had been in contact with IS operatives in Raqa, the group’s former Syria stronghold, who asked him to "carry out military operations targeting officers and members of the Jordanian military intelligence services." He had also been told to monitor the base and had passed intelligence to IS on its layout and how it was guarded. Since IS took over swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014, Jordan, a key US ally, has used its own air force and allowed US-led coalition forces to use its bases. |
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