Jordan buries police corporal killed in Amman stabbing

Jordan held a funeral in Amman on Friday for a police corporal stabbed to death a day earlier; King Abdullah pledged to protect the kingdom's security.

• Corporal Jawad Ali Khalaf al-Salaita was killed and another officer wounded in Thursday's stabbing on Medina Street in Amman, the Public Security Directorate said.
• King Abdullah II said, during a visit to Kazakhstan, that Jordan would not allow anyone to threaten the kingdom's security or harm its citizens.
• Prime Minister Jaafar Hassan said his government would show no leniency toward terrorist groups and would pursue those he called deviant thinkers.
• State Security Court public prosecutor Ahmed Talat Shahaltoogh announced that his office had begun investigating the attack.