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AMMAN, Jordan, March 11 (UPI) -- Jordan has hanged two militants convicted in the 2002 murder of a U.S. diplomat in Amman.
Libyan Salem bin Suweid and Jordanian Yasser Freihat said they were forced into confessing to the shooting of Laurence Foley. Foley worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
He was shot in the chest and head outside his Amman home in 2002, marking the first time a Western diplomat was murdered in Jordan's capital.
The BBC reports two other co-conspirators were found guilty and sentenced to jail terms.
Six others, including al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, have been convicted in absentia for involvement in the murder and given a death sentence.
Al-Zarqawi is accused of being the mastermind in the diplomat's slaying.
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