The Chronicle has its biases and they are evident in the article, but any astute reader can catch them. Compare what Newsmax says about the Chron article with the article itself. There are some interesting things about Jordan in here too.
"..The monarch said his security services had followed the trail of the suspects and captured five trucks packed with 17.5 tons of high explosives, which apparently were intended for an attack on the Jordanian prime minister's office and the intelligence ministry. "It was a major, major operation," Abdullah said. "It would have decapitated the government." Casualties would have been "in the thousands," he added. "It couldn't have been more sinister." Abdullah said European anti-terrorism experts were aiding the Jordanian police investigation, but details were still sketchy -- including a solid identification of the type of explosive the suspects were carrying.
He said that although the trucks had come from Syria, "I'm completely confident that Bashir did not know about it," he said, referring to Syrian President Bashir Assad, whom U.S. officials have accused of allowing terrorist groups to use his country's territory. .."
On the other thread about a BBC article, it said:
Jordan 'was chemical bomb target' (WMDs al-Qaeda)
"..the suspects have confessed to plotting to detonate a chemical bomb on the Amman HQ of the Intelligence Services..."
There is different information on this developing story. The significant thing to me is the reported confession, if that is true.
We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!
Newsmax has a tendency to overstate many of the stories it runs. Bottom line, whatever the reason, the liberal media rarely, if ever, runs with anything that "breaks' on Newsmax.