A photographer at a leading Japanese newspaper was fired today after a cluster bomb he was carrying as a souvenir of the Iraq war exploded at Amman airport, killing a security guard and wounding three others.

JORDAN’S King Abdullah II yesterday issued a decree pardoning a Japanese photographer who was sentenced to 18 months in jail for the explosion of an Iraqi war memento that killed an airport security guard, a court official said.

Jordan’s King Abdullah today pardoned a Japanese journalist who had been jailed for 18 months for accidentally killing an airport security guard with a cluster bomb in his luggage.

A Japanese newspaper president is taking a pay cut after Jordanian prosecutors charged one of his photographers with manslaughter.

A Japanese newspaper photographer, arrested after an Iraqi war souvenir exploded in his suitcase, killing a Jordanian airport guard, remained in custody today.