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U.S. Counterterrorism Team Helping Investigators in Jordan Hunt for Killer
Aired October 29, 2002 - 05:08 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Turn our attention now to the Middle East. A U.S. counter-terrorism team is helping investigators in Jordan hunt for the killer of an American diplomat. Laurence Foley was gunned down outside of his home in Amman yesterday.
Our Jerrold Kessel joins us live from the Jordanian capital.
Good morning.
JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
And it's just 30 hours since Laurence Foley was gunned down at his home, so it's early days in this investigation. No word of any breakthrough. But we understand that people from the U.S. Embassy, from U.S. counter-terrorism, are working energetically together with U.N. security officials to try to track down the killer and his probable accomplices. And the Jordanians have pledged they will do so and those in the know say there's a pretty good chance that they, that that's not a false boast, because Jordan has a good record in these kind of things. It's a very tightly knit society. And as one person in the know put it to me, if the man who did this act knows anybody else, any other human being on earth, then he's bound to be known sooner or later, probably even sooner.
And as the investigation continues, the shock continues to settle in, shock and consternation among Jordanians here, as they have really been shocked out of the repose, to a degree. This is known as one of the safest capitals in the Middle East. They were shattered in that belief yesterday with the killing in the sedate suburb where Mr. Foley's home was. And the shock even greater because he was a man known to be, dedicated his life to doing things for other people. As one Jordanian woman put it to me, she said I still have goose pimples when I think of this man being gunned down. A terrible thing is what she called it.
Now, they, nobody is saying who might have been responsible. The U.S. and Jordan being very careful about pointing fingers in any direction. But it is being treated, really, as having some kind of political motive. So there's a good deal of consternation along with the shock, because it not only underlines the fragility of Jordan, but also some of the problems that the U.S. has in this region, where there is a good deal of hostility in the public, if not in the authorities, to U.S. policies and those policies, perhaps, could that could intensify as U.S. policies on Iraq take further shape -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right, Jerrold Kessel, thanks for bringing us up to date.
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Aired October 29, 2002 - 05:08 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Turn our attention now to the Middle East. A U.S. counter-terrorism team is helping investigators in Jordan hunt for the killer of an American diplomat. Laurence Foley was gunned down outside of his home in Amman yesterday.
Our Jerrold Kessel joins us live from the Jordanian capital.
Good morning.
JERROLD KESSEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
And it's just 30 hours since Laurence Foley was gunned down at his home, so it's early days in this investigation. No word of any breakthrough. But we understand that people from the U.S. Embassy, from U.S. counter-terrorism, are working energetically together with U.N. security officials to try to track down the killer and his probable accomplices. And the Jordanians have pledged they will do so and those in the know say there's a pretty good chance that they, that that's not a false boast, because Jordan has a good record in these kind of things. It's a very tightly knit society. And as one person in the know put it to me, if the man who did this act knows anybody else, any other human being on earth, then he's bound to be known sooner or later, probably even sooner.
And as the investigation continues, the shock continues to settle in, shock and consternation among Jordanians here, as they have really been shocked out of the repose, to a degree. This is known as one of the safest capitals in the Middle East. They were shattered in that belief yesterday with the killing in the sedate suburb where Mr. Foley's home was. And the shock even greater because he was a man known to be, dedicated his life to doing things for other people. As one Jordanian woman put it to me, she said I still have goose pimples when I think of this man being gunned down. A terrible thing is what she called it.
Now, they, nobody is saying who might have been responsible. The U.S. and Jordan being very careful about pointing fingers in any direction. But it is being treated, really, as having some kind of political motive. So there's a good deal of consternation along with the shock, because it not only underlines the fragility of Jordan, but also some of the problems that the U.S. has in this region, where there is a good deal of hostility in the public, if not in the authorities, to U.S. policies and those policies, perhaps, could that could intensify as U.S. policies on Iraq take further shape -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right, Jerrold Kessel, thanks for bringing us up to date.
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