{"id":19662,"date":"2018-10-24T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19662"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T11:23:34","slug":"jordans-former-counterterror-chief-habis-al-hanini-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19662","title":{"rendered":"Jordan’s former counterterror chief Habis al-Hanini shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jordan’s former counterterrorism chief General Habis Hanayneh<\/span>\u00a0has been shot dead outside his home, according to\u00a0medical and security sources.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hanayneh\u00a0was killed around 7pm (16:00 GMT) on Tuesday in\u00a0the city of Madaba, around 30km southwest of the capital, Amman.<\/p>\n

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 Ibrahim Owais told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n

The assailant has been arrested, according to a statement issued by the spokesman of Jordan’s public security department.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The murderer confessed to his crime, saying he had planned it a while ago, believing that Hanayneh was behind his arrest in Russia in 2005, and caused him trouble at his work,” the spokesman said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A senior Jordanian intelligence officer and a former senior CIA<\/a> officer who still has ties to Jordan<\/a> confirmed Hanayneh<\/span>‘s death.<\/p>\n

The senior Jordanian intelligence officer, who\u00a0<\/span>spoke to Al Jazeera on condition of anonymity, said he had known and worked with Hanayneh<\/span>\u00a0for decades and that his death “was a tragic loss to Jordan and the counterterrorism community around the world”.<\/p>\n

A former CIA analyst, who had worked with Hanayneh<\/span>\u00a0in the past and did not wish to be identified for this report, told Al Jazeera that Hanayneh<\/span>\u00a0was an “extremely smart intelligence officer” and that he “really understood the underpinning of why individuals join extremist groups”.<\/p>\n

Hanayneh<\/span>\u00a0retired from Jordan’s General Directorate of Intelligence (GID) “about a year ago”, said the\u00a0senior Jordanian intelligence officer.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Follow Ali Younes on Twitter:\u00a0@ali_reports<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jordan’s former counterterrorism chief General Habis Hanayneh\u00a0has been shot dead outside his home, according to\u00a0medical and security sources. Hanayneh\u00a0was killed around 7pm (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 chest and was pronounced…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19662","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\/19662","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=19662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}