Court sentences militant to death
Jordan’s military court convicted an Al Qaeda in Iraq militant of involvement in the deadly suicide car bombing of the Jordanian Embassy in Iraq in 2003 and sentenced him to death.
Muammar Ahmed Yousef 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 Qaeda in Iraq, which was then headed by Abu Musab Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for the attack. The court dropped charges against Zarqawi, citing his death in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq in June 2006.
Jaghbeer is also on trial in the 2002 attack that killed U.S. aid official Laurence Foley in Amman, Jordan’s capital.
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