A Jordanian-Palestinian judge who was shot dead by Israeli troops at the Jordan border tried to snatch a ****** and "strangle" a soldier, a preliminary army investigation showed on Tuesday. The incident occurred Monday when troops opened fire at the Allenby Bridge border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, killing a Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship, claiming he was a "terrorist" who had tried to snatch a ****** from a soldier. They said the man, identified by the Palestinians as 38-year-old Raed Zeiter, had first charged at the soldiers with a metal pole, prompting them to fire at his legs. "The preliminary conclusion of the investigation indicates that the terrorist attacked the soldier.