Foiled Al Qaeda Attackers Caught Red-Handed with WMDs

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/17/04 | News Max

[musical_airman]

Saturday, Apr. 17, 2004 11:23 AM EDT Foiled Al Qaeda Attackers Caught Red-Handed with WMDs

Two members of an al Qaeda cell connected to top terror master Abu Musab al-Zarqawi have been caught in Jordan with chemical weapons and poisonous gas for a planned attack that Jordanian officials say would have killed up to 20,000 people.

The officials told the London-based newspaper al-Hayat on Friday that the al Qaeda plotters planned to launch a WMD attack against a Jordanian Military Intelligence installation, the US embassy in Amman and a government building in the country.

According to the Israeli newspaper Maariv, the al Qaeda terrorists managed to smuggle three cars packed with explosives into Amman. Jordanian security forces found a chemical charge in one vehicle.

"The bomb, had it been detonated, could have affected people in a one kilometer radius and cause the deaths of up to 20,000 people," Jordanian officials told Maariv

According to United Press International, the al Qaeda car was intercepted just 75 miles from the Syrian border and "carried explosives, a chemical bomb and poisonous gas."

The discovery of the al Qaeda WMD plot is sure to renew speculation that some of Saddam Hussein's missing weapons of mass destruction were hidden in Syria before the U.S. attacked in March 2003, and have now found their way into al Qaeda's hands.

As of Saturday morning, the White House had not commented on the al Qaeda WMD plot and its possible ties to Iraq.

[mikegi]

I must have missed the part about WMDs in the SFC article...

[Common Tator]

Something is definitely "off" about this story.

Only if you are unable to think.

For many years Jordan pretended to be on our side or at least neutral. But when we went into Iraq we found such things as planes used to train military pilots that were bought by Jordan and resold to Saddam.

It was legal for companies to sell planes and other military items to our Friends in Jordan but not our enemies in Iraq. We now know that Jordan was laundering all sorts of military items for Muslim militants.

But once we found a number of military items sold to Jordan in Afghanistan and Iraq the Jordanians have had to cut it out. Jordan is afraid to cross us as is Kadafi. Syria, Iran, and the insurgents in Iraq are ticked at Jordan for going belly up.

Al Quaeda is trying to show that siding with the US will not protect the Jordanians. They are trying to show Jordan that siding with us is bad policy.

It is interesting to note that at least this attempt by Al Quaeda to punish Jordan failed.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Yeah, it's SO obvious what Al Quaeda and it's vast network of sub-organizations are doing. I see their strategy-trying to either blackmail or instill fear in our allies therefore weakening our resolve to defeat them. Some will whimp out like Spain-others will be wise enough to know that if they give in they will be eunichs.

[Littlejon]

Has Jordan been helping us more than we know?

I don't know if they are or not, but I can tell you what our former pastor told us about Jordan. He has been to Jordan quite a bit over the last several years, as they have a school set up through Baptists. I don't recall if it was originally built by Southern Baptists or not, but, academically, it is very well known in the ME. The last King of Jordan (Hussein, I think) sent his children there because it was so far ahead of the rest academically.

Anyway, through the school, our former pastor has been trying to get more Christian outreach programs set up and he thinks he has found a way: through tourism. What most people don't realize is that Jordan is one of, if not THE poorest nations in the ME. They have no oil. They have no natural resources. They are dirt poor. They have been trying to find ways to get out of this poverty for some time now. What most people also don't realize is that Jordan is where most Christian activities took place in Jesus' time. There is a lot of speculation that John the Baptist baptized Jesus in Jordan. He told us that on one trip they were traveling down a road (if you can call it that) and saw a Roman road marker that was leaning over the side of the road. It was dated back to the Roman Empire when the Romans dominated that part of the world. Artifacts have been found laying in fields & along roads, but Jordan has no money to fund archaeological excavations or even to mark some of the areas that Christians would want to visit. They can't even afford to put the artifacts in museums, so they just lay there, rotting away. So, what our pastor is doing is trying to get Jordan to open itself up as a Christian tourist mecca (sorry, lack of a better word). King Abdullah is very keen on the idea, but has been told that Jordan has to "clean itself up" before American Christians will come there. Part of that cleanup includes safety from Islamic radicals.

THAT may be playing a part in their cooperation as told in this story. I don't know for sure, but when I read this, that was the first thing I thought of.

Who knows, but I am just happy they caught the bastards before the killed a bunch of people.

[Aggie Mama]

Very interesting.

[rocksblues]

Let's just hope we can have the stomach for Syria with this Vietnam/Iraq/Mania/Media. If anybody has it it is GWB!

[Thinkin' Gal]

Only if you are unable to think.

Nice opening line. Amiable isn't the word.

[Thinkin' Gal]

To: LoudRepublicangirl
Has Jordan been helping us more than we know?

I don't know if they are or not, but I can tell you what our former pastor told us about Jordan. He has been to Jordan quite a bit over the last several years, as they have a school set up through Baptists. I don't recall if it was originally built by Southern Baptists or not, but, academically, it is very well known in the ME. The last King of Jordan (Hussein, I think) sent his children there because it was so far ahead of the rest academically.

Anyway, through the school, our former pastor has been trying to get more Christian outreach programs set up and he thinks he has found a way: through tourism. What most people don't realize is that Jordan is one of, if not THE poorest nations in the ME. They have no oil. They have no natural resources. They are dirt poor. They have been trying to find ways to get out of this poverty for some time now. What most people also don't realize is that Jordan is where most Christian activities took place in Jesus' time. There is a lot of speculation that John the Baptist baptized Jesus in Jordan. He told us that on one trip they were traveling down a road (if you can call it that) and saw a Roman road marker that was leaning over the side of the road. It was dated back to the Roman Empire when the Romans dominated that part of the world. Artifacts have been found laying in fields & along roads, but Jordan has no money to fund archaeological excavations or even to mark some of the areas that Christians would want to visit. They can't even afford to put the artifacts in museums, so they just lay there, rotting away. So, what our pastor is doing is trying to get Jordan to open itself up as a Christian tourist mecca (sorry, lack of a better word). King Abdullah is very keen on the idea, but has been told that Jordan has to "clean itself up" before American Christians will come there. Part of that cleanup includes safety from Islamic radicals.

THAT may be playing a part in their cooperation as told in this story. I don't know for sure, but when I read this, that was the first thing I thought of.

Who knows, but I am just happy they caught the bastards before the killed a bunch of people.

44 posted on 04/17/2004 7:39:56 PM EDT by Littlejon


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1119591/posts?page=44#44

Eeeek.

[TASMANIANRED]

SADAM THE MADMAN HAD 14 MONTHS TO SEND HIS WMD TO SYRIA FOR SAFEKEEPING OR DISTRIBUTION TO TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS.

If there is even one chemical or biological attack anywhere in the world the Democrats in congress and the liberal press are directly responsible. They provided Sadam with cover and concealment while he did exactly what GWB was trying to prevent. The distribution of weapons of mass extinction to the terrorists.

[bert]

why Jordan and not Iraq.....

Because in Jordan they can. In Iraq they can not.

My guess.

[michigander]

Wasn't his father educated in the US?

I don't know about his father but, he was...

Source

The son of King Hussein's British-born second wife, Princess Muna (nee Antoinette "Toni" Gardiner), Abdullah was schooled in England from the age of four and completed his high school education in the United States.

He later took one-year courses in international affairs at Oxford and Georgetown Universities writing a masters degree thesis on the Arab-Israeli conflict.

[randita]

Little tidbit from our friends over at DEBKA (for what it's worth):

"DEBKAfile reports: Jordanian authorities hunting Azmi Jayoussi, Palestinian from Jenin, last member of al Qaeda-Hizballah team that infiltrated from Syria three weeks ago armed for poison gas mega-strike. Rest of team and 3 trucks packed with explosives, weapons and chemicals rounded up by Jordanian security. Main targets Jordanian intelligence HQ and US embassy in Amman. Potential casualty toll – 20,000 within 1.5 km radius"

[randita]

Another possible way Al Qaeda got the WMD (actually more plausible than a direct Syrian link):

Syria Smuggles Missiles, WMD to Sudan

[John H K]

Which chemical weapon were they preparing to unleash?

Fact they don't say makes me wildly sceptical of the "20,000 dead" estimate, and the entire story, actually That's nearly impossible with a single point dispersal.

Donning flame-proof suit, but I suspect that number is wildly, wildly inflated. It's been rather popular to overestimate the effectiveness of chemical weapons, though, usually by assuming a given quantity of X gets perfect distribution in a fatal amount to the maximum amount of people, which never, ever happens in reality.

[Buggman]

Very interesting. Thanks for the info.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Off topic a bit... Isn't Jordan one of the countries where The Passion was allowed to be shown?

[TheSpottedOwl]

No, I hadn't heard. Thanks for posting this. Of course you realize that this report is false because Bush lied about WMD. /sarcasm

;-)

[NYC GOP Chick]

Whooooa!

[Tabi Katz]

Haven't you heard? There are no WMD's

My thoughts exactly. Maybe it's time we started pursuing this Syria angle a little more, just in the "off" chance the things are hidden there? Oh, wait, scratch that - the U.N. wouldn't like it.

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