(Reuters) Suleiman al-Khalidi - Jordan on Saturday executed two Islamist militants found guilty of the murder of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman in October 2002, the first Muslim militants the country had hanged for years. Earlier this month rioting broke out in three big Jordanian prisons after security forces transferred the two for execution. Jordanian intelligence accused Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, of masterminding Foley's murder.
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