The State Security Court on Sunday sentenced Abu Mussab Zarqawi and two other men to death, after convicting them of plotting to launch a suicide attack on oil tankers at the Karameh border post in December 2004. Fahd Fuheiki, along with Zarqawi and Thirar Abu Odeh, both being tried in absentia, were found guilty of filling a car with explosives to launch the attack. On Dec. 3, 2004, Fuheiki placed the explosive substances in his vehicle and drove towards the Jordanian border from Iraq with the intent of attacking oil tankers that were parked there, the charge sheet said. Fuheiki was unable to accomplish his mission because of technical problems with his vehicle and was arrested shortly afterwards by the authorities, who discovered the explosives while searching his car, the prosecution said. The maximum penalty for transporting and possessing explosives and plotting subversive acts is death.
Fuheiki stood motionless upon hearing the verdict during a 15-minute court session. He told reporters shortly after being handed the death sentence that he came to the border point in Jordan to be a martyr. âMy intention was to detonate the car and be a martyr but technical problems prevented me from accomplishing my mission,â Fuheiki said. The court said Fuheiki was speeding towards the border, but his vehicle fell into a ditch causing the explosive wires to disconnect from the car battery and he could not accomplish his mission. The car was packed with 12.750 kilos of explosives, 17 artillery rockets and four detonators, according to court transcripts. âIf they execute me, I will be a martyr, if they imprison me for life it would be a retreat for me and if they deport me it would be like tourism for me,â he added.
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According to the charge sheet, Fuheiki illegally crossed into Iraq from Saudi Arabia in August 2004 where he joined a group led by Zarqawi. The group trained on several weapons, the benefits of jihad and martyrdom and Abu Odeh told Fuheiki suicide attacks were the best jihad methods so the defendant decided to join the suicide attackers' team, the charge sheet added. The group resolved to target oil tankers and trucks transporting goods from the Karameh border to Iraq, and Zarqawi instructed the men to launch suicide attacks using cars laden with explosives, the charge sheet said. Zarqawi was sentenced to death in absentia by the same tribunal for his role in the assassination of US diplomat Lawrence Foley, who was gunned down in front of his home in October 2002.