{"id":92386,"date":"2017-03-04T03:26:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T08:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=92386"},"modified":"2017-03-04T03:26:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T08:26:19","slug":"jordan-executes-10-men-convicted-of-terror-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/04\/jordan-executes-10-men-convicted-of-terror-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan executes 10 men convicted of terror charges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jordan on Saturday executed 10 men convicted of terrorism charges, including deadly attacks on tourists, Jordanian security forces and a local writer, the government spokesman said. (Photo: Andrew Moore\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

AMMAN, Jordan\u2014Jordan on Saturday executed 10 men convicted of terrorism charges, including deadly attacks on tourists, Jordanian security forces and a local writer, the government spokesman said.<\/p>\n

It was the largest round of executions since pro-Western Jordan launched a crackdown on Islamic extremists two years ago, following the killing of a captured Jordanian fighter pilot by the Islamic State group. Jordan is a part of a U.S.-led military coalition against IS, which holds territory in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n

The men were hanged at dawn Saturday at Swaqa Prison in central Jordan, government spokesman Mohammed Momani said in a statement carried by the state news agency Petra.<\/p>\n

Five others were executed for other crimes, including rape, he said.<\/p>\n

Momani said the assailants executed Saturday for terror convictions had been involved in five different incidents, from a 2003 bombing attack on Jordan’s embassy in Iraq to the September 2016 shooting of outspoken writer Nahed Hattar in the Jordanian capital of Amman.<\/p>\n

Also listed was a 2006 shooting attack on a group of tourists at a Roman theatre in the centre of Amman. A British man was killed in the attack.<\/p>\n

Hattar had been on trial for posting a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam on social media when an assailant walked up to him on the steps of an Amman courthouse and shot him dead. The shooter was a former mosque prayer leader motivated by anger over the cartoon, officials said at the time.<\/p>\n

Saad Hattar, a cousin of the victim, said Saturday that while the killer was punished, those who instigated such attacks with hateful rhetoric were not.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe murderer was just a tool, and our society needs the uprooting of the ideology and the culture behind him,\u201d Hattar, a journalist, told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Jordan intensified a campaign against suspected Islamic extremists after IS released a video in early 2015, showing its militants burning to death the fighter pilot as he was trapped in a cage. In response to the video, Jordan executed two prisoners linked to the al-Qaida terror network, a precursor of IS.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of Jordanians have been detained or sentenced to prison since then, including those expressing support for IS on social media.<\/p>\n

Jordanian authorities have dismissed support for IS in the kingdom as a fringe phenomenon and said security forces can contain any threat. However, there has been a rise in attacks in Jordan linked to Islamic extremists over the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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