Mahmoud Freihat
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Lieutenant General Mahmoud Freihat (born in 1960,
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) is a former
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of the
Jordanian Armed Forces The Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF) ( ar, الْقُوَّاتُ الْمُسَلَّحَةُ الأرْدُنِية, romanized: ''Al-Quwwat Al-Musallaha Al-Urduniyya''), also referred to as the Arab Army ( ar, الْجَيْشُ الْعَرَبي ...
. Freihat was appointed to this position on 2 October 2016 and served until 24 July 2019. He earned his military commission from Jordan's Royal Military Academy in 1980 and later earned graduate degrees from the United Kingdom's
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and
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. He is the cousin of the historian Khaled Freihat


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