A suspected terrorist charged with killing a U.S. diplomat had computer files on making explosives and poison, a Jordanian military court heard Tuesday. Salem bin Suweid, 40, a Libyan national, has pleaded innocent to shooting Laurence Foley, an administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development, in Amman on Oct. 28 last year, and also to conspiring to carry out terror attacks with others. Ten other defendants are on trial with bin Suweid, six of them still at large. They are all charged with conspiring to commit acts of terror and illegal possession of automatic weapons. All 11 suspects — Jordanian, Libyan, Syrian and Palestinian — are facing the death sentence if convicted.
| And Jordan often seems to convict them... |
The government has blamed Foley's assassination on al-Qaeda. The indictment does not mention al-Qaeda, but it says at least half of the accused had links with Jordanian militant Ahmed al-Khalayleh, thought to be a senior figure in al-Qaeda.
Intelligence officer Lt. Muthana al-Qatan testified that when he examined a computer found at Suweid's home in Russeifa, about 15 miles northeast of the Jordanian capital Amman, he found files on the manufacture of explosives and poison as well as "tactics on guerrilla warfare and methods of resisting law enforcement officers." Questioned by defense lawyers, al-Qatan said the files could have been downloaded from the Internet.
| Meaning they weren't kept on the same hard drive as the titty pictures. Wouldn't have been devout, y'know... |
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