Jordan's military court upheld a death sentence...

Jordan's military court upheld a death sentence it handed down last year against an Iraqi convicted of murdering a Jordanian truck driver inside Iraq three years ago.
The accused, Ziad Khalaf al-Karbuli, was extracted from Iraq in May 2006 and first sentenced to hang by the court in March last year.
Judges found him guilty of "carrying out terrorist acts that led to the death" of the Jordanian Khalid Dassuki, who was shot dead in Iraq in September 2005.
The sentence was overturned by the court of cassation on the grounds that judges had rejected an application from Karbuli's lawyer for his client to undergo psychiatric tests.
Jordanian officials have always insisted that the military court has jurisdiction in the case even though the alleged crime was committed outside Jordanian territory on the grounds that the victim was Jordanian and the case forms part of the wider war against Al-Qaeda.