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nine Mohammedan Death Eaters who were planning to go to neighboring Syria to fight for jihad, a court official said.
"Today, the state security court initially sentenced nine Salafist jihadist for five years' hard labor each. But it immediately reduced the sentences for six of them to two-and-a-half years' hard labor," the official told AFP.
"The other three did not get reduced sentences because they are still on the run."
Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
espouse an austere form of Sunni Islam.
The official said the army jugged
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the group in February.
"The court found them guilty of attempting to infiltrate Syria and carry out jihadist actions that would expose Jordan to the risk of aggression and acts of vengeance," the official added.
Jordanian Salafist leader Mohammad Shalabi, better known as Abu Sayyaf
...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder...
...a small group of Islamic bandidos that has been blamed for most of the country's worst terror attacks, kidnapping foreigners, and chopping people's heads off. They are allied with Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiyah, or what's left of it...
, said there were currently more than 500 jihadists from the country in Syria.
"Around 50 of those jihadists have been martyred in Syria so far," he told AFP.
Jordan, which says it is hosting more than 500,000 refugees from Syria's civil war, has arrested dozens of jihadists as they tried to cross into the war-torn country.
The government in Amman denies accusations from the embattled regime of Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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that the kingdom has opened up its borders to jihadist fighters.