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FRANKFURT AMMAN Jordan (AP) — A military court upheld a gtiilty' n verdict and death sentence Sunday against a accused of conspiring to cany out poison gas attacks on American and Israeli targets in tin kingdom three years ago The ruling came nearly two months after an appeals court ordered a retrial saying military judges in State Security Court had insufficient evidence to convict Raed Hijazi 33 last February of possessing arms and manufacturing explosives “The State Security Court decided not to comply with the ruling of the appeals court” said Col Fawaz Buqour pree panel siding over a Hijazi wearing a navy blue prison uniform stood silently as the verdict was read out in a courtroom guarded by a dozen armed policemen Hijazi — who was bom in San Jose Calif and carries Jordanian and American passn terrorism ports — had pleaded innocent suspect Raed Hijazi stands to seven charges including behind bars at the Jordan possession of arms and explo- Security Court in Amman on sives and conspiring to blow up Oct 2 2001 Jordanian sites frequented by New Year 2000 celeAmerican and Israeli tourists during-th- gunpoint Sunday and flew it over downtown Frankfurt circling skyscrapers and threatening to crash into the European Central Bank He landed safely after about two hours and was arrested The man apparently a German told a television station he wanted to call attention to Judith Resnik a US astronaut killed in the 1986 explosion ' of the space shuttle Challenger Military jets chased the stolen two-semotorized glider as the man began circling slowly above Frankfurt’s banking district Hundreds of people were evacuated from the main railway station and dozens more from several skyscrapers which were mostly empty on a Sunday afternoon at the end of the Christmas season Authorities refused to identify the man who was being questioned at the airport But news named him as channel n Strambach “I want to make my great idol Judith Resnik famous with this" he said in a call from the plane to the channel “She deserves more attention she was the first Jewish astronaut and maybe that’s why she isn’t really conpost-laun- ch three-judg- at Jordanian-America- n-- tv brations ' Defense attorney Samceh Khreis called the verdict “politically motivated” and said Jordan was merely trying to “prove to the Americans that it's combating terrorism'' in Franz-Stepha- Algerian attacks ALGIERS Algeria (AP) — Islamic militants ambushed a military convoy in northeast Algeria and attacked families near the capital in a bloody weekend of killings that claimed at least 56 lives Algerian media reported Sunday The ambush Saturday night reportedly killed 43 soldiers and seriously wounded 19 the deadliest assault suffered by the Algerian military in at least five years In the other attack Islamic militants killed 13 people from two families overnight Saturday in Zabana 30 miles south of the capital Algiers the official news agency APS reported citing security services It attributed the attack to the Armed Islamic Group the north African country's most radical insurgency The killings dealt a blow to claims by Algeria's military-backe- d battle government that it is winning its decade-ol- d against Islamic extremists Germany (AP) —A man stole a small aircraft at Jordanian-Ameri-ca- 56 killed ©ity ©?lnfi)S)In) Man arrested after stealing plane threatens to crash it into bank sidered" Police said the man had identified the Central Bank headquarters as a possible taiget A police helicopter was sent up to try to force the plane away from the AP photo passes the headquarters of the Hesse state bank the so called “Main Tower” in downtown Frankfurt Germany on Sunday A man who stole the plane and threatened to crash into the European Central Bank in Frankfurt on Sunday landed safety at the city's airport The main railway station and several skyscrapers were evacuated temporarily as a precaution A small plane city The German air force sent two Phantom jets roaring back and forth across the evening sky Central Bank spokeswoman Regina Schucller said security officers evacuated about 10 employees from their offices The bank’s preadent Winp Duisenbeig was not in the building Though the man told v he didn’t want to harm anyone he 'threatened to commit suicide once his fuel ran out He landed n-t- at 5:11 pm at Frankfurt’s international airport where flights were halted during the drama It was unclear if the man was forced to land or talked down Air traffic controllers and a police psychologist had been in contact with him The man stole the plane Sunday afternoon from an airfield at Babenhauscn just southeast of Frankfurt He threatened a pilot at gunpoint seized the controls and took off said Axel Raab a spokesman for the German air safety agency e The plane was a single-engin- Super Dimona motorized glider and belonged to the Babenhausen flying club a club spokesman said The spokesman who asked not to be named said the gunman was not a member and had asked 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