Jordan sentences eight to death for US killing

JORDAN’S military court convicted eight Muslim militants yesterday and sentenced them to death for the 2002 killing of a US aid official in a terror conspiracy linked to al-Qaida.

The court also handed down jail terms ranging from six to 15 years for two other men convicted in the conspiracy, which began with the killing of Laurence Foley, 60, an Amman-based administrator for the US Agency for International Development.

Foley was gunned down outside his Amman home on October 28, 2002.