A U.S. diplomat, Laurence Foley, was shot dead yesterday in Amman, Jordan. He was gunned down outside his house in what appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks against Western targets in the region. Journalist Robert Fisk writes in The Independent, “Amman is burning with anger at the United States and its threats against Iraq. More than half of Jordan’s population is Palestinian and America’s unconditional support for Ariel Sharon’s Israeli government has embittered many of them; demonstrators have often called for the end of Jordan’s 1994 peace treaty with Israel.”