Journalists Jailed for Comment on CIA Suicide Bombing
The Jordanian security authorities arrested two journalists, Mowafaq Mahadin and Sufian Al-Tal, for criticizing the cooperation of the Royal Jordanian Intelligence Services officer Captain Al-Sharif Ali bin Zaid with the illegal occupation of the United States in Afghanistan.
The public prosecutor of the State Security Court ordered the detention of Mahadin and al-Tal after a group of retired army personnel filed a lawsuit accusing them of “offending the armed forces and betraying their blood.”
The journalists were arrested after they made statements during television talk shows aired separately by two stations, whereby the two men questioned the legality of Jordan’s collaboration with the US intelligence services in Afghanistan. The debate addressed the issue of the Jordanian suicide bomber, Homam Balawi, who blew himself up at a US forward base in Khost, Afghanistan, on last December 30, killing seven CIA agents and his Jordanian handler.
Until now the regime-controlled media in Jordan is characterizing the presence of their intelligence operatives in Afghanistan as a “humanitarian mission”, and forbids the family of Dr. Khalil bin Hammam bin Mellal Balawi from mourning their son.
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