Jordanians jailed for recruiting Iraq bombers

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13 August 2007

AMMAN - A military court on Monday sentenced two Jordanians to 20 months in jail for recruiting suicide bombers to fight US-led forces in Iraq.

The state security court sentenced Zuhair Hamdan and Nidal Salem to three years in prison, but immediately reduced it to 20 months to ”give them a chance to repent,” a judicial source told AFP.

Hamdan and Salem, who pleaded not guilty at the start of their trial in April, were arrested in October as they returned from neighbouring Syria where they signed up suspects to fight in Iraq.