{"id":19586,"date":"2018-10-23T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19586"},"modified":"2018-10-23T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:24:00","slug":"jordans-former-counter-terror-chief-habis-al-hanini-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19586","title":{"rendered":"Jordan&#8217;s former counter-terror chief Habis al-Hanini shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"100.952054795\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/jordan.html\">Jordan<\/a>&#8216;s former counter-terrorism chief General Habis al-Hanini has been shot dead outside his home,\u00a0<span>according to medical and security sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Al-Hanini was killed around 7pm local time (16:00 GMT) on Tuesday in\u00a0<span>the city of Madaba, around 30km southwest of the capital, Amman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The 56-year-old, also known as Abu Haytham, died from three gunshot wounds to the chest and was pronounced dead on arrival at al-Nadim hospital, doctor Hasan Ahmad al-Bawarid told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan&#8217;s official news agency Petra confirmed al-Hanini had been killed and quoted an unnamed security official who warned the local news media not to speculate on the identity of the killer.<\/p>\n<p>The search for the killer of al-Hanini is under way, the news agency reported, citing a security source.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Jordanian intelligence officer and a former senior CIA officer who still has ties to Jordan confirmed Hanini&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p><span>The senior Jordanian intelligence officer, who\u00a0<\/span>spoke to Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity, said he had known and worked with Hanini for decades and that &#8220;it was a tragic loss to Jordan and the counter-terrorism community around the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A former CIA analyst, who had worked with al-Hanini in the past and did not wish to be identified for this report, told Al Jazeera that al-Hanini was an &#8220;extremely smart intelligence officer&#8221; and that he &#8220;really understood the underpinning of why individuals join extremist groups&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Hanini retired from Jordan&#8217;s General Directorate of Intelligence (GID) &#8220;about a year ago&#8221;, said the\u00a0<span>senior Jordanian intelligence officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is the first time in recent memory where a high-ranking Jordanian intelligence officer was killed either on active duty or in retirement.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow Ali Younes on Twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ali_reports\">@ali_reports<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan&#8217;s former counter-terrorism chief General Habis al-Hanini has been shot dead outside his home,\u00a0according to medical and security sources. Al-Hanini was killed around 7pm local time (16:00 GMT) on Tuesday in\u00a0the city of Madaba, around 30km southwest of the capital, Amman. The 56-year-old, also known as Abu Haytham, died from three gunshot wounds to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}