The State Security Court prosecutor on Wednesday referred a 29-year-old Syrian for trial on charges of threatening terrorist acts in the Kingdom following the Nov. 9, 2005, triple bombings in Amman. Yousef R., a blacksmith, was officially charged with threatening the use of force to disrupt the security and spread horror among people. The defendant arrived in the Kingdom from Syria in September 2005 and was employed by a shop in Jerash, the charge sheet said. On Nov. 18, the defendant was visiting relatives in Zarqa; he then headed to an Internet café, the charge sheet added. The defendant posted a threatening text in the political forum of the Jordan Information Centre (JIC) website under the user name â911â and password âblood,â according to the charge sheet.
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The suspect was referring to Sajida Atrous Al Rishawi, the would-be Iraqi female suicide bomber who arrived in the Kingdom with her husband and another two Iraqis a few days before the November blasts. Rishawi, appeared on Jordan Television on Dec. 13 and explained how she tried to blow herself up alongside her husband Ali Hassan Shumari, in coordination with the two other Iraqis at three hotels on Nov. 9.
The prosecution said that the JIC website is frequented by over 50,000 people on daily basis and that the defendant posted his threatening text so that it could be accessed by this large number of visitors. The suspect was arrested shortly after posting the text and confessed to his actions, according to the charge sheet.