December 27, 2004 Jordan Court Acquits Militants of Terror By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:23 a.m. ET AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Jordan's military court on Monday acquitted 13 Muslim militants, including three Saudi fugitives, of conspiring to commit terror attacks against U.S. targets in Jordan, but sentenced 11 of them to prison terms ranging from six to 15 years for possessing explosives. Two defendants -- Jordanian Saud al-Khalayleh and Isam al-Barqawi -- were acquitted for lack of evidence in charges that they possessed explosives and plotted terrorist attacks. The prosecution claimed they targeted the U.S. Embassy and other American interests in Jordan. The guilty verdict can be appealed. The prosecution charged the 13-member cell, including three Saudi fugitives and 10 Jordanians in police custody, of possessing and intending to use explosive material and conspiring to carry out terror attacks. The prosecution charged the 13 men with targeting the U.S. Embassy in Amman and Jordanian military bases near the eastern Iraqi border where the militants believed American troops were stationed. No attacks had been carried out when police uncovered the plot in December 2002. Only one of the defendants, Jordanian Zuhair Shdeifat, has confessed to plotting terrorist attacks, telling military judges that the group's motive was to ``defend Jordan's soil'' by purging it of American forces the defendants had thought were stationed in Jordanian desert towns bordering Iraq. The other nine Jordanians in custody have pleaded innocent since the trial opened on Sept. 29, 2003. They had told the court that they had been coerced into signing guilty confessions. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Jordan-Terrorism.html?pagew anted=print&position= ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
