Laurence Foley
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Laurence Michael Foley, Sr. (October 5, 1942 – October 28, 2002) was an American diplomat. He was murdered outside his home in Amman, Jordan in 2002.
Biography
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Foley became a Peace Corps volunteer in 1965, serving two years in India upon graduating from Boston State College, now University of Massachusetts. After earning a master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling at San Francisco State University in 1969, he served as a probation officer in Contra Costa County, California. He later worked for the Peace Corps, serving as Associate Director of the Peace Corps program in the Philippines from 1980 to 1985. He served as Director of Administration at the Rehabilitation Services of Northern California until joining the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in 1988. After working in Bolivia, Peru, and Zimbabwe, Foley became Supervisory Executive Officer of USAID/Jordan in 2000.[1][2]
Murder and aftermath
On the morning of October 28, 2002, Foley was killed by gunshots from a 9 mm pistol as he walked to his car outside his Amman home.[3][4] On December 14, two men, Libyan Salem bin Suweid and Jordanian Yasser Freihat, were arrested and charged with killing Foley. According to the Jordanian government, the men were paid to kill Foley by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an Islamist militant leader, who at that time was the commander of the group named Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad.[5] Though the men confessed, they later claimed they were forced to by Jordanian authorities.[6]
In April 2004, the two men were sentenced to death for killing Foley.[6] Zarqawi was sentenced to death in absentia for his role in the assassination,[6] but was killed in a U.S. airstrike on June 7, 2006.[7] Foley's assassins were executed on March 11, 2006.[8] Another conspirator, Mohammed Ahmed Youssef al-Jaghbeer, was sentenced to death on July 13, 2009.[9]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."In memoriam: Diplomat and public servant Laurence Foley". San Francisco State University. October 31, 2002.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."US diplomat shot dead in Jordan". BBC News. October 28, 2002.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.MacFarquhar, Neil (October 29, 2002). "Threats and Responses: Attack on U.S. Diplomat; American Envoy Killed in Jordan". The New York Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jordan: Al Qaeda killed U.S. diplomat". CNN. December 14, 2002.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jordan militants sentenced to die". BBC News. April 6, 2004.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Burns, John F. (June 8, 2004). "U.S. Strike Hits Insurgent at Safehouse". The New York Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jordan hangs US diplomat killers". BBC News. March 11, 2006.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jordan: Death Sentence in Killing of U.S. Diplomat". The New York Times. July 13, 2009.
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