Laurence Foley
Laurence Michael Foley, Sr. (born October 5, 1942 in Boston , Massachusetts , † October 28, 2002 in Amman , Jordan ) was an American diplomat .
Foley went to the Peace Corps in 1965 after graduating from the University of Massachusetts . He worked for the Peace Corps and other aid agencies until he joined the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in 1990 . After working in Bolivia , Peru and Zimbabwe , Foley became the Supervisory Executive Officer of USAID in Jordan in 2000.
On the morning of October 28, 2002 Foley was gun shots from a silenced pistol with caliber killed 9 mm, as he walked from his house to his car. On December 14th, two people were arrested on charges of murdering Foley. These were the Libyan Salem Sa'ed Salem bin Suweid and the Jordanian Yasser Freihat (alias Yasser Fathi Ibraheem). According to Jordanian sources, the two men were charged with the murder by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and paid for it. The defendants protested their innocence in court and alleged that their confessions had been obtained.
In April 2004, the Jordanian State Security Court sentenced the two perpetrators, Bin Suweid and Freihat, to death; two other co-defendants received long prison terms. Az-Zarqawi was also sentenced to death in absentia; he died in an air raid on him in Iraq on June 7, 2006 . The two perpetrators were already executed on March 11, 2006.
Web links
- Remembering Laurence Foley ( July 6, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive ) - US Embassy in Amman
- Foley remembered for 'compassion' - CNN
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foley, Laurence |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Foley, Laurence Michael senior (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 2002 |
| Place of death | Amman , Jordan |