{"id":73438,"date":"2017-07-18T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T16:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73438"},"modified":"2017-07-18T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T16:21:21","slug":"maarik-al-tawaiha-sentenced-to-life-in-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73438","title":{"rendered":"Maarik al-Tawaiha sentenced to life in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/jordanian-soldier-gets-life-killing-3-us-trainers-095620027.html\">AFP<\/a> reports that Maarik al-Tawaiha was sentenced to &#8220;hard labor for life&#8221; in a Jordanian court for the murder of three Americans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In its ruling, the court said the incident had happened when vehicles carrying the trainers approached the gate of the base.<\/p>\n<p>At that moment, there was &#8220;a low sound of gunfire from a distant and unknown source&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Tawaiha, who was in a guard post at the gate, told the court he had opened fire on the cars carrying the American trainers because he suspected an attack on the base.<\/p>\n<p>The court said he &#8220;fired a full magazine of ammunition&#8230; intending to kill them after it was clear to him who they were and that they were American personnel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It said he had disobeyed orders by failing to follow rules of engagement before opening fire.<\/p>\n<p>The incident left three Americans dead and wounded a Jordanian soldier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article &#8220;hard labor for life&#8221; usually means 20 years imprisonment in Jordan, but it could mean life in prison sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP reports that Maarik al-Tawaiha was sentenced to &#8220;hard labor for life&#8221; in a Jordanian court &hellip; <a title=\"Maarik al-Tawaiha sentenced to life in prison\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73438\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maarik al-Tawaiha sentenced to life in prison<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}