Jordan’s former counter-terrorism chief gunned down outside his home By Rahul Kalvapalle

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File photo of the Jordanian national flag.
The former head of the counter-terrorism wing of Jordan‘s intelligence agency has been fatally shot outside his home, according to a source.
Al-Jazeera also reported that Habis al-Hanini, who retired from Jordan’s General Directorate of Intelligence about a year ago, was killed in the city of Madaba on Tuesday evening.
He was shot in the chest in front of his home, located some 33 kilometres from the Jordanian capital of Amman, according to the Turkish state-run Anadolu NewsGeneral (Ret’d) Habes Samir Al-Hanini was shot dead outside his house in Maedaba, Jordan. He was a former senior official in Jordanian intelligence. He was shot multiple times in the chest according to multiple sources. The motive is unknown. 

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