A Jordanian military court on Thursday convicted three Syrians and one Iraqi to death for firing rockets at two American 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.
According to the AP, 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.
Fired from a warehouse on the outskirts of the Red Sea resort of Aqaba, one rocket landed outside a Jordanian military hospital on the far side of the bay and killed a Jordanian soldier. Another fell across the border in Israel.
