Terrorist killers sentenced to death

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

Among those sentenced to death was Jordanian militant Ahmed al-Khalayleh, better known as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is thought to be a close associate of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.