Amman, Jordan
An American diplomat in Jordan was killed this week as he walked to his driveway, shot seven times in what authorities are treating as a terrorist attack. Larry Foley, 60, was an experienced officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Amman, where he helped set up lending services and clean-water facilities for the poor. Hearing gunshots, his wife, Virginia, rushed outside in time to see her husband slumping in a pool of blood and a masked gunman running away. Jordanian authorities, who keep close tabs on extremists and have broken up several al Qaida plots against Western targets, have arrested a suspect.
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