Critics of Jordan's US ties charged with sedition
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Two Jordanians who criticised the government's security ties with the United States have been charged with sedition and slandering the army, judicial officials said on Saturday. A military court charged Muwaffaq Mahadin and Sufyan al-Tell last Thursday after a legal complaint by a group of army veterans, angered by comments the men, a writer and a political activist, had made on television.
They spoke on air two weeks after a Jordanian double agent, blew himself up at a US base in Afghanistan on Dec. 30, killing a relative of King Abdullah and seven CIA officers, in the second most deadly attack in the agency's history. The operation exposed Amman's role at the centre of a complex espionage operation and embarrassed the authorities. (Reuters)
