Jordanian Raed Hijazi, who is charged with planning to attack U.S. and Israeli targets during...

Jordanian Raed Hijazi, who is charged with planning to attack U.S. and Israeli targets during the millennium celelbrations, is escorted by police at the military court in Amman November 26, 2001. A U.S. diplomat has refused to testify at the trial of the Muslim militant, the court said on Monday, despite Hijazi's defence lawyers request that U.S. consul Les Hickman take the witness stand in a bid to prove that the defendant had been tortured to extract written confessions. California-born Hijazi's name appeared last month on a U.S. Treasury Department list of 39 groups and people suspected of ties to "terrorist funding".