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.
Again, no reason to think "fertilizer", although they might assume such, given the enormous amount - 17.5 tons. Sloppy.
Or they might have read the BBC report cited in Anti-Bubba 122's #36, and not cited it. That does mention "chemical weapons", but Newsmax doesn't refer to the BBC.
That is incredibly stupid but story is still very serious and constitutes a casus belli if the syrians knew about it.
Yes, but we can't tell from this Newsmax article or the cited SFC article linked in jwalburg's #12 that Syria's government knew about the explosives. Abdullah claims not.