A Jordanian suspected to be involved in USS Cole explosion
Jordan-USA, Local, 12/7/2000

The London- based al-Sharq al-Awsat daily quoted judicial sources in Amman as saying that the Jordanian security investigate with a Jordanian of Palestinian origin called Raed Muhammad Hassan Hijazi recently handed over from Syria to know whether he has links to exploding the US warship Cool at Aden airport or if he has information about this operation or those who carried it out.

American officials expressed their optimism that Amman will hand over Hijazi to Washington which views him as responsible for training and orienting those who attacked " cool."

The Judicial sources said that regardless to Hijazi's relations with the incident of the " warship " cool" he will be retried in the case of organizing al-Qaeda ( the base0 organization which is pro Osama Bin Laden after he was earlier this year convicted in this case and he was sentenced to death in absentia.

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