Police question witnesses in hunt for assassin

Witnesses saw a man with his face covered outside the home of a US diplomat at about the time he was shot dead, Jordanian officials said today as they probed a claim of responsibility for the assassination.

A group calling itself Shurafaa’ al-Urdun, or The Honourable of Jordan, said it killed Laurence Foley as he left for work yesterday at the US aid agency office in the capital Amman.