A military tribunal sentenced nine Salafi jihadists who had been arrested while trying to travel to Syria for jihad; six were given sentences of two and a half years of hard labor, and the remaining three were sentenced in absentia to five years’ hard labor. According to Jordanian Salafist leader Mohammad Shalabi, a.k.a. Abu Sayyaf, there are now more than 500 Jordanian jihadists in Syria and about 50 have died fighting there.
