(AP) Jamal Halaby - Last month in Irbid, Jordan, two men grabbed Sultan, 42, a Syrian anti-regime activist, and dragged him into a waiting car where they stabbed him, slashing his neck and head. Sultan says he recognized the car's driver: a Syrian intelligence officer from the Damascus prison where for three months this year Sultan was jailed and tortured. When the car got stuck in traffic, passers-by and police intervened and rescued him, arresting the four Syrian men in the car. The attack was the latest in a string of similar incidents in recent months, leading refugees and Jordanian officials to believe Syrian regime agents are operating in the kingdom.
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