Amman - Jordan's State Security Court sentenced Sunday three suspects to imprisonment after convicting them of trying to smuggle weapons to the West Bank to attack Israeli troops, legal sources said. The tribunal sentenced Salim al-Mahshi to five years imprisonment and Saeed Sawarkah to seven-and-a half years.
The third defendant, Saleh al-Err, who is still at large and was tried in absentia, received a 15-year prison sentence with hard labour.
All three were charged with "unlicensed possession of arms and plans to export weapons to the West Bank".
The verdicts can be appealed at the Cassation Court within 30 days, legal sources said.
Under the peace treaty that was concluded with Israel in 1994, Jordan pledged not to allow its territory be used for staging attacks against the Jewish state.
