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9 sentenced to death in Jordan terror plot
(AP)
Updated: 2006-02-15 19:27
A military court sentenced nine men, including al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi, to death Wednesday for a plot to carry out a chemical attack
on the kingdom.
Al-Zarqawi and three others received the death penalty in absentia. But the
plot's alleged mastermind, Azmi al-Jayousi, and four co-defendants were in the
courtroom when the judge handed down the sentence for the 2004 plot.
The court sentenced two of the 13 defendants to prison terms of between one
and three years, and acquitted another two defendants.
The 13 were charged with conspiring to attack various sites in Jordan by
setting off a cloud of toxic chemicals that would have killed thousands of
people, authorities said.
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