Jordan Executes 10 Prisoners With Links to Islamic Extremism
Also listed were a 2006 shooting attack on a group of tourists at a theater in Amman in which a 30-year-old British man was killed; a December 2015 shooting
that killed two police officers; a March 2016 shootout between the police and Islamic State militants in which an officer was killed; and a June 2016 attack by a lone gunman on an office of Jordan’s intelligence agency that killed five people.
The prisoners executed Saturday for terrorism convictions had been involved in six different episodes, including a 2003 bombing attack
that killed 19 people at Jordan’s Embassy in Iraq and the September 2016 shooting of Nahed Hattar, a writer, on the steps of an Amman courthouse.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMARCH 4, 2017
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan on Saturday executed 10 prisoners with ties to Islamist extremism who had carried out five shootings
and a bombing since 2003, a government spokesman said.
The executions on Saturday were the first since Jordan began a crackdown on Islamist extremists two
years ago, in response to the killing of a captured Jordanian fighter pilot by the Islamic State.
Five other prisoners were executed for crimes unrelated to terrorism, including
incest, Mr. Momani said in a statement carried by the state news agency, Petra.
Kamhawi said that Jordan is on top of