Four sentenced to death in ’05 attack
From Times Wire Reports
Jordan’s state security court sentenced three Syrians and an Iraqi to death for their role in firing rockets at the U.S. warships Ashland and Kearsarge while they were docked at the Red Sea port of Aqaba in 2005.
The rockets killed a Jordanian soldier and also struck the Israeli port of Eilat.
Three were sentenced in absentia. The militant in custody, Syrian Mohammed Hassan Sehli, 53, denied involvement in the attack on Aqaba, which handles supplies for U.S. forces in Iraq.
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