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| Jordan tourist attacker to hang | |
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| A court in Jordan has sentenced a man to death for a gun attack in September that killed a British tourist visiting Amman and injured six other people. | |
| Nabil Ahmad Jaoura, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, is said to have been motivated by anger at Western policies towards Arabs in the region. | |
| He is said to have acted alone and had no links to violent organisations. | He is said to have acted alone and had no links to violent organisations. |
| British accountant Christopher Stokes was killed in the gun attack outside Amman's Roman amphitheatre. | British accountant Christopher Stokes was killed in the gun attack outside Amman's Roman amphitheatre. |
| Five other tourists and a Jordanian policeman were hurt by bullets fired from Jaoura's pistol. Jaoura was arrested at the scene of the shooting. | |
| Jordan's state security court sentenced him to death by hanging. | |
| As the sentence was read out, Jaoura shouted in Arabic: "God is great!" and "We are the masters, not the slaves." | |
| "I am a holy worrier and I thank God for this verdict," he said. | |
| Anger | |
| In an interview with the BBC before the hearing, Jaoura's wife Mariam said two of his brothers had been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon more than two decades ago. | |
| She said he had become increasingly angry watching Israel's conflict with Lebanon this summer - an event that, according to the BBC correspondent Jon Leyne, seems to have triggered a long-awaited act of revenge. | |
| Many Jordanians have expressed anger at Western governments' stance towards the region, particularly their apparent support for Israel's policy towards the Palestinians. | |
| In November 2005, scores of people were killed in suicide bomb attacks on three hotels housing visiting Westerners in Amman. |