Court Sentences Zarqawi to Death in Absentia
Jordan’s military court sentenced Iraq insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi and two others to death for the second time in connection with a failed suicide bombing along the Iraqi border a year ago.
Zarqawi and one of the other defendants were sentenced in absentia. A third man, Fahd Noman Suwelim Feheiqi, a Saudi, is in custody.
The military court previously sentenced the Jordanian-born Zarqawi, who is believed to be in Iraq, to death for the October 2002 slaying of U.S. aid worker Laurence Foley, who was gunned down outside his Amman home.
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