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AMMAN, Jordan, April 6 (UPI) -- A Jordanian military court has sentenced eight Islamic militants to death for the assassination of a U.S. diplomat, the Jordanian Petra news agency reported.
Six of the eight suspects were sentenced in absentia. All eight are believed to have links with the al-Qaida terror network.
U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley was killed in October 2002 in the front yard of his home in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
The most prominent of the eight convicts, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is believed operating in Iraq. The court also sentenced two other defendants to 6- 15 years of imprisonment with hard labor.
The court's presiding officer, Col. Fawaz Bqour, said two convicts -- Ali Salem bin Sweid, a Libyan, and Yasser Fathi Frehat, a Jordanian, -- will be hanged, while the same punishment will be applied to six others when they are captured.
One defendant, Nouman Saleh Al Haresh, was acquitted.
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