AP: 4 sentenced to death for firing on U.S. warships (Jordan)

4 sentenced to death for firing on U.S. warships
Jordan tries 2 Syrians, 1 Iraqi in absentia over August 2005 incident

Updated: 58 minutes ago

AMMAN, Jordan - A Jordanian military court on Thursday sentenced three Syrians
and one Iraqi to death for firing rockets at two U.S. warships in August 2005.

One of the Syrians, Mohammed Hassan Abdullah al-Sihly, is in police custody,
but the other two Syrians, Abdul-Rahman al-Sihly and Abdullah al-Sihly, and
the Iraqi, Amar al-Samera’i, remain at large and were tried in absentia.

The court acquitted Mohammed al-Sihly’s three sons, who also were in police
custody, and sentenced five others to various jail terms ranging from two to
10 years.

The rockets missed, but the Aqaba Bay incident was the most serious attack
on the U.S. Navy since the 2000 bombing in Yemen of the destroyer USS Cole,
which killed 17 sailors.

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