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Source: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=238180&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

Jordan Hangs Palestinian for Assassinating Diplomat

(Ha'aretz/AP) On Jan. 29, 1994, Naeb Imran Maaytah, first secretary at the Jordanian Embassy in Lebanon, was shot dead while sitting in his car in front of the embassy in Beirut. At the time of the assassination, Jordanian and Israeli officials were negotiating the agreement that became the Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty of October 1994. A Palestinian, Yasser Mohammed Abu Shinar, 37, connected with the Abu Nidal group, who was arrested in Jordan in March 2000, was hanged for the crime on Wednesday at Swaqa Penitentiary, Jordanian security officials said Thursday.

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