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Jordanian soldier gets life for killing 3 US military trainers
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA Jordanian court sentence a soldier to life imprisonment over the killing of three American military trainers outside an army base last year.
The military court in Amman finds 39-year-old Maarik Al-Tawaiha guilty of shooting the trainers as they waited to enter the King Faisal base at Al-Jafr in southern Jordan on November 4.
The charge sheet did not indicate that he had any ties to militant groups.
The court sentenced him to “hard labor for life,” a term that usually lasts 20 years but could stretch to a full lifetime, a judicial official tells an AFP correspondent at the courthouse.
It also demotes him from sergeant to second private and throws him out of military service.
— AFP
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