Maj Gen Abdallah Al Maaytah

Force in Play

Announced on Monday, October 26, that police had arrested three suspects and named them as two brothers and their brother-in-law. Said they were the perpetrators, that they only represent themselves, and did not tie them to any organized group.

Police arrested three men on Monday, October 26, after a dawn standoff in an abandoned house in al-Jadeeda, a village in Karak. They are two brothers, Hazza Zaidan Mohammad and Meshal Zaidan Mohammad, and their brother-in-law, Ahmad Sami Hussein, all Jordanian. The men refused to surrender and fired on officers, who wounded all three. Police found firearms and ammunition, and the interior minister said there is no sign of ties to other cells.

Updated Nov 2