Posted on 03/11/2006 6:18:14 AM PST by nuconvert
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, guilty of a terror conspiracy that led to the killing of Foley.
Two down, nine to go...
I wonder what took so long? They would have been hanged in a week if they had stolen the King's sheep.
Good. Any video that can be broadcast to al Quada leadership???
What would be the use?
Oh, I'm sure Psy-Ops would know just how to present it. ;)
If the President truly understood that we are at war, he would be saying. "We will kill them as promptly as we can, with the minimum loss of American lives, until those who survive decide they do not want to make war on us, any more." That is the correct statement.
Jordan, obviously, has a grip on this reality.
Congressman Billybob
If they did this murder in the U.S., they'd have twenty years to appeal. In contrast, justice in Jordan is lightening fast.
I think they were sentenced a year ago.
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