AMMAN (Reuters) - Kidnappers freed Jordan's ambassador to Libya and he said on his arrival home on Tuesday that in exchange his government had sent back to Tripoli a Libyan Islamist militant who had been serving a life sentence for a bombing plot.
Jordan's foreign minister said the envoy's release was arranged in contacts with Libyan authorities, not with the kidnappers. But some Jordanian officials voiced concern at the precedent the handover of the militant could set for Amman, an important U.S. ally in the fight against al Qaeda.