JORDANIAN SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER IRAQ EMBASSY ATTACK

a military tribunal in Amman, Jordan, sentenced a Jordanian man to death for his role in the 2003 bombing of Jordan's embassy in Iraq, which killed 14 people. The state security court found Moamar al-Jaghbir guilty of "conspiracy to carry out a terrorist attack that led to the death of an individual," referring to a Jordanian national killed in the embassy bombing. Jaghbir, 37, was charged in March 2005 along with slain Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi over the attack. He has been in Jordanian custody since May 2004 after being handed over by US forces in Iraq. According to the charge sheet, Zarqawi, who was killed in a US raid in Iraq in 2006, ordered Jaghbir to stake out the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, before appointing a man identified as "Abu Ahmad" to carry out the attack. Jaghbir is also on trial for his involvement in the 2002 assassination of US diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman.