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I think I've solved your quandary.

Sounds like they're airing a confession now.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-jordan0424,0,994619.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

AMMAN, Jordan -- State television aired confessions Monday from al-Qaida suspects who allegedly planned chemical and poison gas attacks against the U.S. Embassy and other targets in Jordan.

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The suspects scheduled to appear on Jordanian television were linked to a purported conspiracy that officials announced two weeks ago had been foiled. The officials said they had arrested an unspecified number of al-Qaida suspects in two raids in late March and early April.

Last week, officials said four other terror suspects believed linked to the same conspiracy were killed in a shootout with police in Amman.

Government officials have said the suspects plotted to detonate a powerful chemical bomb targeting Jordan's secret service and use poison gas against the prime minister's office, the U.S. Embassy and other diplomatic missions.

Had the chemical bomb exploded, it could have killed at least 20,000 people and wrecked buildings within a half-mile radius, the officials have said.

They said the suspects, who allegedly entered Jordan from Syria, have confessed that the plots were hatched by Jordanian militant Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, thought to be a close associate of al-Qaida boss Osama bin Laden.