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November 22, 2006
Jordan: Gunman Says Britain Is "Enemy Of Islam"
On September 4 a gunman shot at tourists in the old Roman amphitheater at Amman, Jordan. He had lain in wait for his victims, and injured five people and killed one other. Most of his victims were British tourists, who were on a package tour of the region. The dead man was 30-year old Christopher Stokes from Littleborough near Rochdale, northern England. A policeman who challenged the gunman was also shot twice.
The gunman was apprehended and he was on trial today, and showed no remorse for his crime. 38-year old Nabeel Ahmed Issa al-Jaourah was born in the Baqaa Palestinian refugee camp near the city, and had lived in Zarqa, the same slum town where terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had grown up. Jaourah is a blacksmith by trade, and is the father of five children.
Today, according to Associated Press, he told the court: "God blessed me when I killed a British man and hurt others, because they are fighting the Prophet and his soldiers since (the) Balfour Declaration. The British people.... insulted the honorable Koran and women who wear the head cover."
The Balfour Declaration was the 1917 decision by the British to support the creation of Israel. The issue of the British argument over the Muslim nikab/niqab, or face veil, had only become news in Britain a month after Jaourah had gone on his spree, so it is a fallacious argument.
Jaourah had said he was innocent of Christopher Stokes' murder, but his attempt to justify the killing caused the prosecutor to claim he had confessed. The prosecutor advised that Jaourah should receive "the harshest punishment".
The trial has been adjourned till next week. Jaourah could be hanged if found guilty.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 22, 2006 6:15 PM
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