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Jordan sentences killer of British tourist to death
21 Dec 2006 08:41:03 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Israeli-Palestinian conflict

AMMAN, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Jordan's State Security court on Thursday sentenced a Jordanian man of Palestinian origin to death for a shooting spree against Western tourists which killed a British man and wounded five people.

The court convicted Nabil Ahmad Jaoura, 38, a Palestinian refugee born in Baqaa camp on the outskirts of Amman, of shooting the tourists who were visiting historic sites in the Jordanian capital last September and sentenced him to hang.


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