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| Iraq |
| Maan rioters, Abu Sayyaf sentenced to hang |
| 2006-03-23 |
| Jordan yesterday sentenced to death nine Islamist militants for their part in 2002 riots in the southern city of Maan in which seven people were killed. Four of them were sentenced in absentia by a three-man military court which also handed another militant a 10-year prison sentence. Dozens of others were acquitted. Among those sentenced to death was Abu Sayyaf, a fiery preacher and alleged Al Qaeda sympathiser who is already serving a 15-year sentence he received in 2004 for a plot to attack Westerners. * The president of Jordan's state security court gave Jordanian-born Islamist fugitive Abu Musab Al Zarqawi 10 days to surrender and face trial in connection with triple bombings in Amman hotel late last year that killed about 60 people. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |