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Jordan: Militant Sentenced for Attack By JAMAL HALABY – 4 hours ago AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's military court convicted an al-Qaida militant Monday of involvement in the deadly suicide car bombing of the Jordanian Embassy in Iraq in 2003 and sentenced him to death. Muammar Ahmed Yousef al-Jaghbeer, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, was arrested in 2005 upon his return from Iraq and charged with the embassy attack, which killed 19 people. Al-Qaida in Iraq, which was then headed by Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for the attack. The court dropped charges against al-Zarqawi on Monday, citing his...

TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Deep in a violent and lawless slum just north of this coastal city, 12 men whose faces were shrouded by scarves drilled with Kalashnikovs. In unison, they lunged in one direction, turned and lunged in another. “Allah-u akbar,” the men shouted in praise to God as they fired their machine guns into a wall. The men belong to a new militant Islamic organization called Fatah al Islam, whose leader, a fugitive Palestinian named Shakir al-Abssi, has set up operations in a refugee camp here where he trains fighters and spreads the ideology of Al Qaeda. He has...

Jordan executes killers of U.S. envoy Two with ties to al Qaeda hanged for 2002 assassination (CNN) -- The Jordanian government Saturday executed two al Qaeda-linked terrorists convicted in the 2002 assassination of a U.S. diplomat, according to Jordan's Petra news agency. Salem Sa'ed Salem bin Suweid, a Libyan national, and Yasser Fathi Ibraheem, a Jordanian, were hanged at the Siwaqa Correctional and Rehabilitation Center for the killing of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley.

Jordan Hangs 2 for U.S. Diplomat's Murder Two militants were executed by hanging on Saturday for the killing in Amman of a U.S. diplomat. Laurence Foley, a 60-year-old administrator of U.S. aid programs in Jordan, was gunned down outside his Amman home on Oct. 28, 2002. Jordanian authorities have blamed al Qaida in Iraq's top operative, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, for Foley's death. The two militants are Salem bin Suweid, a Libyan, and Yasser Freihat, a Jordanian. They were part of an 11-member cell headed by the Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi. A Jordanian military court found 10 of the cell members, including al-Zarqawi,...

"In August 1998, the detainee traveled to Pakistan with a member of Iraqi Intelligence for the purpose of blowing up the Pakistan, United States and British embassies with chemical mortars."  U.S. government "Summary of Evidence" for an Iraqi member of al Qaeda detained at Guantanamo Bay, CubaFOR MANY, the debate over the former Iraqi regime's ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network ended a year ago with the release of the 9/11 Commission report. Media outlets seized on a carefully worded summary that the commission had found no evidence "indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or...

A Jordanian court has sentenced eight Islamic militants to death for the murder of a United States diplomat in the capital Amman 18 months ago. Jordanian authorities say the men are linked to the Al Qaeda terror network. Laurence Foley, a diplomat with the US Agency for International Development, was shot dead outside his Amman home in October of 2002. The Jordanian court also sentenced two other men to 15 years in jail in connection with the killing. Jordanian authorities say at least one of the men sentenced to die - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - has connections with Al Qaeda....

Revealed: Islamic extremists' plan to hit civilian targets Chilling details about the existence of a group of extremist Islamic militants, set on executing attacks on civilians in Britain, are revealed in intelligence documents obtained by The Observer. The cell, comprising at least six individuals and based in London and Luton, is part of the 'al-Tauhid group'. The group is independent of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organisation, but follow a similar hardline agenda and has been blamed for a series of attacks and plots over the last three years. According to German intelligence documents, it is believed that members of the...

Al Qaida members arrested for killing of US diplomat Police have arrested a Libyan and a Jordanian with links to top al Qaida operative for the killing of an American diplomat in October, confirms the Jordanian government. Laurence Foley was shot at close range on October 28 in front of his home in Amman. Information Minister Mohammed Affash Adwan says the two men, Salem Saad bin Suweid, a Libyan, and Yasser Fatih Ibrahim, a Jordanian, both acknowledged belonging to al Qaida. He says the Libyan trained in al Qaida camps in Afghanistan and entered Jordan on a fake Tunisian passport....

Supposed assassins of the American diplomat Al-Qaïda members (official) Saturday December 14, 2002 - 15h09 GMT AMMAN, 14 déc (AFP) - a Libyan and Jordanian were stopped Saturday in Amman for the assassination in October in Amman of the American diplomat Laurence Foley and acknowledged to be members of network Al-Qaïda of Oussama Ben Laden, declared with the AFP the Jordanian Minister for Information Mohammad Adwan. "the two men are Al-Qaïda members and were in contact with one of the high persons in charge for this network, Fadel Nazzal Al-Khalayleh, alias Abou Moussab Al-Zarkaoui, a criminal who had fled...