Jordan Executes 2 Militants for Slaying (of U.S. official)

[Eugene]

Jordan Executes 2 Militants for Slaying


Sunday March 12, 2006 12:46 AM

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By JAMAL HALABY

Associated Press Writer

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Two men convicted of killing a U.S. aid official were hanged before dawn Saturday
in Jordan's first execution of al-Qaida-linked militants.

Libyan Salem bin Suweid and Jordanian Yasser Freihat were executed for the 2002 killing of Laurence Foley,
a 60-year-old administrator with the U.S. Agency for International Development who was gunned down
outside his Amman home. The murder plot was blamed on al-Qaida in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Bin Suweid was charged with shooting Foley, and Freihat was found guilty of driving the getaway car.

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Bin Suweid and Freihat were part of an 11-member cell headed by al-Zarqawi. A Jordanian military court
found 10 of the cell members, including al-Zarqawi, guilty in July 2004 of a terror conspiracy that led
to Foley's killing.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5679477,00.html

[Selatius]

1. Funny how undemocratic, tyrannical regimes also have the death penalty.

How does that reflect on the US government here at home? How does that reflect on the millions of people in the US that support the death penalty? An eye for an eye makes the world blind.

[daleo]

2. Thirteen executions in Iraq, now this in Jordan

Interesting coincidence, especially given the Dubai ports deal. Maybe some U.S. allies and puppet governments in the middle east are trying to show the U.S. administration and public how "tough on terrorism" they are.

[cantstandbush]

4. Bet they still don't beat GW's record in Texas. n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Everyone is busy executing their prisoners.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2161178&mesg_id=2161178

Things are just marvelous over there.