Jordan's security gap: Former intelligence officer urges rethink on extremism after church attack

“Jordan's security gap: Former intelligence officer urges rethink on extremism after church attack”

A prominent security specialist has called for reviving a government plan to undermine extremism in Jordan after an attack on a church last month that killed nine people and shook the country. The Oct 23 attack in the village of Hmoud, 80km south of Amman, riled Jordan’s small Christian community and challenged official assertions of Jordan as a bulwark against militancy. Saud Al Sharafat, a former intelligence brigadier general, told The National that the authorities had devised a National…