{"id":22073,"date":"2024-05-16T18:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T15:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=22073"},"modified":"2024-05-16T18:10:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T15:10:05","slug":"king-abdullah-militant-groups-smuggling-drugs-arms-should-be-confronted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/16\/king-abdullah-militant-groups-smuggling-drugs-arms-should-be-confronted\/","title":{"rendered":"King Abdullah: Militant Groups Smuggling Drugs, Arms Should be Confronted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan\u2019s King Abdullah said on Thursday that militant groups that smuggle drugs and arms should be confronted.<br \/>\nThe US-allied kingdom foiled a suspected Iranian-led plot to smuggle weapons to help opponents of the ruling monarchy carry out acts of sabotage, two Jordanian sources with knowledge of the matter earlier said.<br \/>\nAn official source said on Wednesday that the kingdom had in fact foiled an attempt by \u201cforeign-backed militants\u201d to smuggle arms into its territory, seized the arms and detained the smugglers in March.<br \/>\n\u201cWe should confront armed militant groups who commit crimes above the law, especially smuggling drugs and arms which is what Jordan has been thwarting for years now,\u201d the king said at an Arab League summit held in Manama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan\u2019s King Abdullah said on Thursday that militant groups that smuggle drugs and arms should be confronted. The US-allied kingdom foiled a suspected Iranian-led plot to smuggle weapons to help opponents of the ruling monarchy carry out acts of sabotage, two Jordanian sources with knowledge of the matter earlier said. An official source said on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22075,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073\/revisions\/22075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}