Israel’s Shin Bet on Sunday released Jordanian parliament member Imad Adwan to Jordanian authorities following heavy diplomatic pressure from Jordan and a promise that he will face justice at home.
Adwan was caught last month trying to use his diplomatic immunity to smuggle 194 guns, 12 assault rifles, and over six million dollars worth of gold to terror groups in the Palestinian Authority.
“In the wake of the parliamentarian’s questioning, Jordanian security forces arrested several people connected with the smuggling,” the Shin Bet said in a statement released on Sunday. “Al-Adwan was handed over to the Jordanian officials for legal proceedings to be continued in Jordan.”
The Shin Bet added that since February 2022, Adwan had carried out 12 smuggling operations – smuggling various goods into Israel, including gold and electronic cigarettes. In January 2023, he began smuggling in firearms, succeeding several times before being caught in April. Adwan, who received large sums of money for the operations, was motivated by the desire for wealth rather than nationalistic reasons.
Jordanian security forces worked in cooperation with the Israeli investigation into Adwan and arrested several Jordanian officials who were involved in the operations.
An Israeli security official quoted by Ynet said that “the suspect is not released but his interrogation in Israel has been exhausted and he is being transferred to the custody of the Jordanian security officials, who are continuing the investigation and will bring him to justice. He will stand trial. The Jordanians have more clues about the case, hence the cooperation, including additional interrogations they will conduct, something that the security forces in Israel cannot carry out.”
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir slammed the decision, stating that “the decision to release the terrorist who tried to bring hundreds of weapons here that will be used for terrorist attacks and acts of crime in the heart of the State of Israel is a strategic and moral mistake.”
“This issue should also have been brought to the cabinet and the right-wing government is expected to end its obsequious policies toward Gaza, the Jordanians, the Lebanese, and any terrorist who seeks to harm the residents of Israel. This diplomat should sit in prison for many years rather than be released.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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It’s not outrageous
They didn’t want to start a war with Jordan
Coffee
Plus they don’t want their diplomats arrested
@ coffee addict : agreed. If Israeli authorities hold those, then as we have been witnessing it, israelis were called non longer the victims but the agressors. Dirty U_N tactics in action…
The apparent choice: deal with this clown and try to stop him every time he crosses the border, or engage in a lead-slinging event with a near-peer adversary who is also allied with your most powerful ally?
The issue with pacifism is that it is always the most obvious choice or the simplest choice. It hardly ever shakes out that way though.
Let’s hope that this release was a smaller move in a larger game and not just another capitulation for a repeat offender.
should not have returned him
it was obvious that they would send him home, They could at least have tried to use him as a bargaining chip for Ahlam Ahmad Al-Tamimi, the female terrorist who aided in the Sbarro bombing in in 2001, which caused 145 casualties, including 15 fatalities, half of them children, but, No. Big surprise there!
is this connected to the millions of phones tracked and watched even in bedrooms by the israeli government through their pegasus spying software?? like the leftists cause all these stupid decisions out there… honestly