Jordan Chemical Plot Suspects Sentenced to Death

Nine men were sentenced to death today for plotting a chemical weapons attack in the Jordanian capital of Amman, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Dec. 20, 2005).

Al-Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and three others received the sentence in abstentia for the plan foiled by authorities in 2004. However, plot mastermind Azmi al-Jayousi and four others were in court when the sentence was handed down (Associated Press/USA Today, Feb. 15).

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