JORDAN - Feb 15 - 9 Condemned To Death For Terror Plot.A military court condemns to death nine men, including the leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, for plotting a chemical attack that would have killed thousands of people in Jordan's capital. "Bin Laden's organization is rising and we will be back!" the defendants shouted after the sentencing, referring to the Al Qaeda terror network led by Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. . The accused screamed that the judges were "tyrants", adding: The Jews are your masters". The three judges picked up their papers and walked out, leaving the defendants shouting. Zarqawi and three defendants received their death sentences in absentia in absentia (in ab-sensh-ee-ah) adj. or adv. phrase. Latin for "in absence," or more fully, in one's absence. Occasionally a criminal trial is conducted without the defendant being present when he/she walks out or escapes after the trial has begun, since the accused . It was the third death penalty that Jordanian courts have handed down for Zarqawi, who runs the most notorious insurgent INSURGENT. One who is concerned in an insurrection. He differs from a rebel in this, that rebel is always understood in a bad sense, or one who unjustly opposes the constituted authorities; insurgent may be one who justly opposes the tyranny of constituted authorities. group in Iraq. The plot's alleged mastermind, Azmi al-Jayousi, and four co-defendants were in the dock when the judge condemned them to death for the 2004 plot, which security officials foiled before it could be carried out. The court sentenced two of the 13 defendants to prison terms of between one and three years, and acquitted another two defendants. The convicted men, who had long beards in the style of observant Muslim men, turned on one of the acquitted, a Syrian, and accused him of being an informer Informer Battus revealed theft by Mercury; turned to touchstone. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 47] Cenci, Count Francesco old libertine ravishes his daughter Beatrice. [Br. Lit. . They threatened to kill him, but they did not attack him although he was with them in the dock. The 13 men - Jordanian, Syrian and Palestinians - were charged with conspiring to attack various sites in Jordan by setting off a cloud of toxic chemicals that would have killed thousands, according to prosecution estimates. The prosecution told the court that Zarqawi sent more than $118,000 to buy two vehicles which the plotters were to use in the attack. Suicide bombers were to drive the vehicles, loaded with explosives and chemicals, into the grounds of the General Intelligence Department in Amman and detonate det·o·nate intr. & tr.v. det·o·nat·ed, det·o·nat·ing, det·o·nates To explode or cause to explode. [Latin d them. The plot also planned to attack the US Embassy, the prime minister's office The Prime Minister's Office is a small department which provides advice to a Prime Minister in some countries:
See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. of the US diplomat Lawrence Foley in Amman, and for a failed suicide attack on the Jordanian-Iraqi border in 2004. |
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