Jordan mounted an investigation following the killing of US diplomat Foley in 2002

Mohammed Ahmed Youssef al-Jaghbeer was found guilty by Jordan's state security court in a third re-trial on Monday.

The court sentenced him to death by hanging for his role in the killing of Laurence Foley, a USAID administrator who was shot at close range outside his Amman home in October 2002.

Al-Jaghbeer was charged with "carrying out terrorist activity aimed at killing an individual", an unnamed official was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.

Al-Jaghbeer was first convicted in absentia in 2005, along with seven others, including Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the slain leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Two men convicted with him were executed in March 2006.

Al-Jaghbeer was re-tried after he was captured in Iraq and transfered to Jordan, but an appeals court overturned the second guilty verdict on procedural grounds and ordered a new trial.

In Monday's verdict, the court found that al-Jaghbeer facilitated contacts between al-Qaeda and an Amman cell that killed Foley.

Fathi Daradkeh, his lawyer, said he plans to appeal the verdict next week.

Al-Jaghbeer has also been tried separately for the deadly bombing of Jordan's embassy in Iraq in August 2003, in which 14 people were killed.

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