Jordanian Court Sentences 8 to Death for Killing US Diplomat

[seemslikeadream]

Jordanian Court Sentences 8 to Death for Killing US Diplomat
VOA News
06 Apr 2004, 14:24 UTC


A Jordanian state security court has sentenced eight militants to death for the 2002 killing of a U.S. diplomat in Amman.
Diplomat Laurence Foley, who worked for an international aid organization, was shot dead in October of 2002 in the driveway of his home in the Jordanian capital.

A Libyan militant Salem Saad bin Sweid and a Jordanian accomplice Yasser Friehat accused of gunning down Mr. Foley were among those sentenced to death.

Military judge Colonel Fawaz Buqor also handed down death sentences to six defendants in absentia, including militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

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[Aidoneus]

1. yet they didn't sentence a US diplomat for killing a Jordanian

a couple years earlier. Their priorities are misplaced.

PS:--diplomatic immunity, eh.. petty formalities get in the way of the point. :)