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| Middle East |
| Jordan arrests two for diplomat's killing |
| 2002-12-14 |
| Police in Jordan have arrested two men in connection with the killing of American diplomat Laurence Foley in October. Jordanian Information Minister Mohammad Adwan said on Saturday that a Libyan suspected of shooting Mr Foley and a Jordanian believed to be his accomplice had been detained. He said both were members of the al-Qaeda network. That's not much of a surprise... Announcing the arrests in a statement on Jordanian television, Mr Adwan said that Libyan Salem Saad bin Suweid had shot Mr Foley. He said that his accomplice, Jordanian Yasser Fathi Ibrahim, had waited for him in the car. I guess the first guy they arrested for the killing wasn't the right one. The minister said that investigators had found guns and ammunition used in the attack in the men's possession. The statement said that Salem Saad bin Suweid had entered Jordan using a fake Tunisian passport and that he had been trained in al-Qaeda's camps in Afghanistan. I'm starting to think there's no such thing as a legitimate passport anywhere in the Middle East — and precious few of them in Europe and Asia. Police also found a plan to attack "important targets", the statement added. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |