Friday, December 30, 2016

ABDEL HABARA EXECUTED (15 DECEMBER 2016)



Long-detained Islamist militant Adel Habara executed
Habara was convicted for killing 25 police conscripts, among other terrorism-related cases




Imprisoned Islamist militant Adel Habara was executed Thursday morning, following the Cassation Court’s upholding of his death sentence, state media reported.

According to Al-Ahram, his body was transferred to the Zeinhom mortuary. The execution was approved by President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and the justice minister.

Habara received several death penalties in different cases. According to Al-Ahram, he was mainly punished because of the “Rafah massacre.” Habara was convicted in the “second Rafah massacre” of August 2013, killing 25 police conscripts in an ambush on a police convoy in the Abu Tawila region, along the Al-Arish-Rafah Road in Sinai, for which he was sentenced to death.

A copy of the court’s reasoning behind the verdict published by Al-Ahram said that authorised recordings of Habara’s phone calls revealed that he formed a cell that later pledged allegiance to Islamic State (IS). The court said Habara not only admitted in those recordings that he killed the police conscripts, but also “rejoiced their murder,” Al-Ahram reported.

In December 2015, Habara was sentenced to death by the Zagazig Criminal Court on charges of forming a takfiri group, communicating with IS militant group and targeting police officers and army personnel.

On Monday, the Cassation Court upheld the death sentence for Habara on charges of killing a police officer in 2012 in Sharqeya.

Habara, also known as Adel Mohamed Ibrahim, was arrested in August 2013 while hiding in North Sinai’s Al-Arish city. In June 2014, Habara reportedly attempted to escape detention while in a transportation vehicle from court to prison.

5 ISIS Members sentenced to death by hanging in Jordan for terrorism [28 December 2016]



 
Jordanian policemen leave after ending security operations at the Crusader-era castle in Karak, where armed gunmen carried out an attack a day before, on December 19, 2016. Muhammad Hamed/Reuters
Jordan sentences five Daesh members to death
AFP/Amman
Filed on December 28, 2016

The group of 21 were members of a Daesh cell that was broken up in March during a security operation in the northern town of Irbid. 

  



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A court in Amman on Wednesday sentenced to death five Jordanian members of a dismantled cell linked to the Daesh group for "terrorism".

The state security court also handed jail terms of between three and 15 years to another 16 Jordanians in the same case.

They were found guilty of deadly "acts of terrorism", the manufacture of explosives and "possession of weapons and ammunition for use in terrorist acts" and recruiting people for "terrorist organisations".

The group of 21 were members of a Daesh cell that was broken up in March during a large-scale security operation in the northern town of Irbid, near the border with Syria.

Seven suspected militants and a member of the Jordanian security forces were killed during that operation.

The authorities announced later that they had foiled Daesh attacks in the Kingdom, which had already been hit by deadly attacks over the past year.

On December 18, 10 people including a Canadian were killed in a shooting rampage the popular tourist destination of Karak, in an attack claimed by the Daesh group.

Two days later, the authorities arrested a man suspected of funding the attack, in a raid on a house in Karak province.

Jordan is part of the US-led military coalition against Daesh and has carried out air strikes targeting the militants group. It also hosts coalition troops on its territory.

Five ISIS Members Sentenced To Death By Hanging In Jordan For Terrorism
By Laura Loomer - on

Five members of ISIS were sentenced to death by a Jordanian court on Wednesday for terrorism.

The five men were found guilty of terrorism, manufacturing explosives, recruiting terrorists, and the possession of weapons for the use of terrorism.

The terrorists were part of an ISIS cell that was dismantled in March during a security operation in Irbid, which is near the Syrian border.

During the operation, a member of the Jordanian security forces was killed.

Jordan is part of a coalition of nations fighting ISIS, and has carried out numerous air strikes against the Islamic State. In 2015, Moaz al-Kasaesbeh, a pilot in the Jordanian air force, was captured by ISIS and burned alive in a video released by the terrorist organization.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II intensified his attack on ISIS following the brutal death of the Jordanian pilot saying, “It is our war. It has been for a long time,” in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.

This year, Jordan has been attacked by jihadis four times.

The five ISIS members will receive death by hanging.


THE NATIONAL, December 28, 2016


AMMAN // A Jordanian court sentenced five members of an ISIL cell to death by hanging on Wednesday for acts of terrorism.

The state security court in Amman also handed jail terms of between three and 15 years to another 16 Jordanians in the same case.

They were found guilty of deadly “acts of terrorism”, the manufacture of explosives and “possession of weapons and ammunition for use in terrorist acts” and recruiting people for “terrorist organisations”.

The group of 21 were members of an ISIL cell that was broken up in March during a large-scale security operation in the northern town of Irbid, near the border with Syria.

Seven suspected militants and a member of the Jordanian security forces were killed during the operation.