Two Iraqis sentenced to death in Jordan
Jordan, Local, 11/21/2001

The Greater criminal court in Amman had sentenced to death two Iraqis who killed a Kuwaiti student who was studying at the Philadelphia university in Jordan.

The Kuwaiti student Majed al-Hazzal ( 30 year old ) was found on September 5th killed inside a tunel in Jarash to the north of Amman and the Jordanian security accused the victim's two friends of killing him and they are of the Iraqi nationality: Ali Haidar Khuder al-Yasiri and Ahmad Hamid Majid.

The court's judge said that the two persons will be re-tried when they are arrested.

The judge said that al-Yasiri, who is cars trader escaped to Syria by al-Hazzal's passport after carrying out the killing operation because of financial differences between them and that the Syrian forces detained al-Yasiri while Majid is still free.

However, Jordanian security sources said that criminal al-Yasiri admitted before the Syrian investigators that he and Majid killed al-Hazzal by a pillow and a blanket before escaping to Damascus and put his body in a tunnel in Jarash district and that the Jordanian security department asked the Syrian authorities to hand over to it al-Yasiri.

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