2023-08-28 15:55:00
Watan al-Youm – The late Lieutenant General Jamal Shawabkeh’s relationship with His Majesty King Abdullah II dates back to the early eighties of the last century, when His Majesty used to come for training in the Special Forces unit, and the relationship was renewed when His Majesty became a colonel in the army and became an assistant to the commander of the Special Forces. Shawabkeh was also a colonel at that time in the same unit. , And the relationship was strengthened after His Majesty the King took over the Special Operations Command.
After King Abdullah II assumed his constitutional powers at one point, His Majesty the King wanted to jump with a parachute, but Shawabkeh, may God have mercy on him, hid the King’s private umbrella in his office, and all attempts to search for it failed, so Shawabkeh apologized to the King, saying:
The parachute is missing, sir. Indeed, he was able to prevent the king from jumping with a parachute, because he has become king today, as he says, and it is not permissible to expose him to any dangers. For information, the king’s umbrella, according to Shawabkeh, is still believed to be hidden in the office of the commander of the Special Operations Unit.
It was a short moment, but it was enough to change the course of Jordan’s history. The commander of the Special Operations Unit, Prince Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, was in the sight of the besieged killer, and he only had to step on the trigger, but it was fate, as the late retired Lieutenant General Al-Ain Jamal Shawabkeh said, for fate was the ally of the Jordanians. The year 1997. It is true that King Abdullah II is daring with reason, and daring with ingenuity, but in that incident, courage did not need anything but a little luck and sophistication. The orders, according to what His Majesty the King narrated in his book “Our Last Chance”, came from Prince Hassan’s words to make an arrest. Ali, the leader of the Rabieh crime gang, which frightened the Jordanians at the time. Indeed, His Majesty King Abdullah II, as Shawabkeh says, took over the leadership of the special formation of special operations, who carried out orders and the king was at a critical moment in the range of the killer, but it is fate, as Shawabkeh repeats.
One of the stories of the late Shawabkeh is that a family consisting of parents and their children lived in a poetry house near one of the “special operations” camps. So he asked the royal court employees to provide aid to this family, and indeed one of the court employees came with a hundred dinars aid and gave it to the family, and when the king knew the value of the aid, he bought the family an apartment in Abu Naseer and allocated a monthly salary to it, and asked the Shawabkeh to return the amount of ¯ 100 dinars to the court.
Practical experiences:
Special Adviser to His Highness Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad from 1/1/2020 – to date Military Adviser for Crisis in the General Command of the Jordanian Armed Forces Chairman of the American CLS Board of Directors Military Adviser to the President of the Republic of Yemen Deputy Chairman of the Joint Staff – Jordanian Armed Forces – Arab Army Operations Commander Joint Special Commander of the Special Security and Protection Unit to protect Jordanian aircraft, airports and embassies outside the Kingdom Chief of Special Operations Staff Commander of the Royal Special Forces Commander of the Anti-Terrorism Group – Royal Special Forces Member of the twenty-eighth Senate Member of the twenty-ninth Senate
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