Jordan Frees Link To U.S. Envoy Killing

AMMAN [MENL] -- Jordan, regarded as one of the most pro-American states in
the Middle East, has pardoned an Al Qaida operative linked to the
assassination of a U.S. diplomat.
King Abdullah issued a decree that freed six Al Qaida operatives jailed
for plotting attacks on Western and other targets in Iraq and Jordan.
One of those released was identified as Mohammed Issa Damas, sentenced to 15
years for helping assassinate Laurence Foley, a senior official of the U.S.
Agency for International Development in Amman in 2002.